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Nancy Hanks Baird

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Nancy Hanks Baird received a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University. She is married to John K. Baird, who is president of the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission. They are the parents of five children. A freelance writer and editor and the owner of a small business, she published a collection of poetry, The Shell in Silk, in 1996. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Southern Poetry Review, Comstock Review, BYU Studies, Dialogue, and other journals. She loves to run, grow flowers, teach poetry workshops, and try to speak Spanish. Learning Spanish is the most difficult thing she has had to do lately.
LDS
LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Example of work can be found on page 211 of the Spring 1995 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
1951
Husband was president of the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission
BA from Brigham Young University
freelance writer and editor
Female
Author
English

9 Works by Nancy Hanks Baird

Title Role Year Genre
The World at Its Gravest and Best Author Personal Essay
On Dying Young in April Author Poetry
The Shell in Silk Author 1996 Poetry
The Shell in Silk Author Poetry
In the Rising Author Poetry
Riddle Author Poetry
The Sound of a Going Author 1995 Poetry
Pieta Author 1996 Poetry
Properties of Water Author 1996 Poetry
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