Jack Harrell

A native of southeastern Illinois, Jack Harrell is the author of Vernal Promises, which won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, and A Sense of Order and Other Stories, awarded best short story collection in 2011 by the Association for Mormon Letters. His book Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism won the 2017 criticism award from AML. Harrell has published on topics ranging from Mormon literary theory to the aesthetics of death metal music. He teaches writing at Brigham Young...See more

A native of southeastern Illinois, Jack Harrell is the author of Vernal Promises, which won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award, and A Sense of Order and Other Stories, awarded best short story collection in 2011 by the Association for Mormon Letters. His book Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism won the 2017 criticism award from AML. Harrell has published on topics ranging from Mormon literary theory to the aesthetics of death metal music. He teaches writing at Brigham Young University-Idaho. See less