Douglas Thayer

Douglas Thayer teaches English at Brigham Young University where he has served as director of composition, chair of creative writing, associate department chair, and associate dean. He has received various awards for his fiction, including the Karl G. Maeser Creative Arts Award. He is the author of the novel Summer Fire and two collections of short stories, Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone and Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories. and has been published in the Colorado Quarterly. Dialogue...See more

Douglas Thayer teaches English at Brigham Young University where he has served as director of composition, chair of creative writing, associate department chair, and associate dean. He has received various awards for his fiction, including the Karl G. Maeser Creative Arts Award. He is the author of the novel Summer Fire and two collections of short stories, Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone and Under the Cottonwoods and Other Mormon Stories. and has been published in the Colorado Quarterly. Dialogue, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He and his wife--in her last year of law school--have two children currently on LDS missions. See less