Author / Creator Information Submission Form

The Mormon Literature & Creative Arts database invites the submission of information about the lives and works of Mormon authors and creative personnel, as well as information about any others whose works have included Mormon subject matter. Please use this form to submit biographical details and a list of publications.

A sample entry in the database shows how information gathered will be displayed.

Data submitted on this form will be approved by a member of the Mormon Literature & Creative Arts database committee prior to being posted, and edited for length and consistency with other entries. The MLCA committee does not guarantee that any or all data submitted will be entered into the database, and reserves the right to exclude information in order to conform to the editorial and subject parameters of this resource, or to delay data entry for purposes of verification.

Fill in only those fields for which you would like information to become public. The MLDB wishes to respect the privacy of authors, and fields left blank on this form (such as the name of a spouse or children) will not appear in the database for that author. The only exception to this policy is when data about an author is a matter of public record (such as date of birth listed in a library catalog).

This form is exclusively for authors or their agents. If you wish to submit corrections, updates, or other information about a given author, please do so by sending email to the MLDB Committee at MormonLit@byu.edu.

Author Name:
Please write your name in the form used most commonly in your publications.

Other Names:
Please enter any variations on your name by which you may have been published, such as maiden names, pen names, or pseudonyms. These will appear in an “AKA” field and be searchable.

Example:
Author Name: Margaret Young
Other Names: Margaret Blair; Margaret Blair Young; Margaret Blair Fox

Religion:
If you wish your religious affiliation to be public you may enter it here. Please note that the Mormon Literature Database is oriented to the cultural and literary aspects of Mormonism, and no attempt is made to ascertain or verify whether people in the database have membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This database includes authors of many faiths who have written about Mormons and Mormonism. For works to be included in the database which are not explicitly Mormon in nature, there needs to be shown some connection between the author and the Mormon faith or culture, but this connection need not be church membership. For certain authors, religious affiliation is a matter of public record. Any religious affiliation indicated here will be annotated as “self-identified” in the database.

Date of Birth:
Enter this only if you wish this information to become public. Please note that date of birth is often a matter of public record already. For example, the MLDB draws dates of birth from library cataloging data.

Birth Place:
Please indicate City, State/Province, and Country

Current Residence:
Iindicate the city and state/country where you currently reside. Please do not include a complete address.

Date of Death:
If you are the literary agent for a deceased author, please indicate the author’s death date.

LDS Mission(s):
Many users of the database would like to know about missions served by authors in the database. If you wish, indicate the mission name(s) and the dates of service for any missions you have served.

Example:
LDS Mission(s): Chile Santiago South 1980-82

Parents:
Optional

Spouse:
Optional (If spouse is female, indicate her maiden name.)

Children:
Optional

Education:

If you wish, indicate where your schooling has been. This can either be a simple list of institutions and/or degrees earned, or a short description of your schooling.

Example 1:
Education: BA, 1960 Brigham Young Univ.
MA, 1963 Brigham Young Univ.
PhD, Stanford Univ., 1971

Example 2:
Education: I attended Pasadena Community College from 1970-72 and was later a participant in the Iowa Writers Workshop during 1980.

Career:

If you wish, provide a paragraph or two describing your career. This may include brief mention of publications or activities, not simply a record of where one has worked. There are separate fields below for a complete list of publications and awards.

Example:
Career: In her professional capacity Elouise M. Bell speaks throughout the state of Utah on subjects such as poetry, journal-keeping, and feminist issues. In recent years, Bell has performed a one-woman play, Aunt Patty Remembers, throughout the Western states, which she wrote based on research in the journals of Mormon midwife and pioneer Patty Bartlett Sessions. Her publications include essays, reviews, stories, and poems in such periodicals as English Journal, Women Studies Quarterly, BYU Studies, Network, Dialogue, Sunstone, and The Ensign.

Professional Affiliations:

Please indicate the names of any professional groups with which you are affiliated, especially if these are relevant to literature, the arts, or Mormonism.

Awards:

Please indicate any literary awards you have received, including the title of the award, the work that was honored, and the date the awards was given.

Personal Statement:

Please include any other information you would like included about yourself that might be of interest to those using the Mormon Literature Database.

Publications:

Please indicate all of your publications, whether or not these are explicitly Mormon in their content. Not every genre of publication is included in the Mormon Literature Database, so if the genre of writing is not obvious from the publication information, please explain. If it would be easier to submit a resume or previously assembled bibliography, please send this to MormonLit@byu.edu or by mail to:

Mormon Literature Database, c/o Gideon Burton,
3113 JKHB,
Brigham Young University,
Provo, UT 84602

Example 1: (from Lisa J. Peck)
Publications: A Challenge for Brittany (Bookcraft, 1999)
Truth Seeker Series: (1) Dangerous Memories (Springville, UT: Bonneville Books/CFI, 1998); (2) More Precious than Diamonds (Springville, UT: Bonneville Books/CFI, 1999); (3) Nauvoo’s Magic (Springville, Utah: Bonneville Books, 2001)
Lovin' For A Lifetime (Horizon)
Life with the Kids (Horizon, 1999)
Only Once (Bristone Films, 1998) I wrote the screenplay for this film, adapting it from the short story “Greg” by Douglas Thayer

Example 2: (from Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury)
Publications: I've sold one LDS mainstream story (it's in TURNING HEARTS edited by Orson Scott Card and David C Dolahite for Bookcraft Books) and one sort-of LDS science fiction story (in WASHED BY A WAVE OF WIND edited by M Shayne Bell for Signature Books).

Photograph
Where possible, the MLDB includes photographs of authors.

I will send a digital image by email to MormonLit@byu.edu
I have a digital image located at a website whose address I will type in below, and I give permission for this image to be copied into the Mormon Literature Database
I will send a photography by mail which I give permission to be scanned and included in the Mormon Literature Database. Mailing address: Mormon Literature Database, c/o Gideon Burton, 3113 JKHB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
A picture of me may be found on the publication listed below (such as a dust jacket), and I give permission for this image to be scanned and copied into the Mormon Literature Database.
Image information /explanation (if applicable):

Website(s)
If any websites exist that feature you or your work as an author, please enter the relevant internet address(es) plus any other information (such as website name or a brief explanation of it). The name and address for this link will appear on your author biography and users of the Mormon Literature Database will be able to click directly to any such website.

Example entry:
Website(s):
(1) Kenny Kemp official website at http://www.kennykemp.com;
(2) “An Interview with Kenny Kemp” at http://www.wordweaving.com/featureoct02_00.html (This was an interview with me at WordWeaving.com by Cindy Penn);
(3) Booklist: Christian Fiction
http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/aug/31x.html (Booklist put my book I Hated Heaven on their recommendations)

Private Contact Information:
In order to verify this data and to prevent fraudulent data submission, we require authors to include a means for the Mormon Literature Database to contact them. This will not be included in the Mormon Literature Database and will not be made public. Data submissions will not be processed that include only an email address as contact information.
Email address:
Phone number:
Mailing Address:

Public Contact Information:
If you wish for the public to have a means of contacting you, your literary agent, or publisher, please provide that information here (email address, website, regular address – we discourage listing a private phone number).

Please review the information you have entered and then press the submit button. If you entered an email address under “Private Contact Information” you will receive a confirmation of your submission. If you have questions about this form or the use of this data, please send these to MormonLit@byu.edu. Or, if you wish to send information through conventional mail, please do so at the following address:
Mormon Literature Database, c/o Gideon Burton
3113 JKHB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

By submitting this data, you are granting permission to make this data available to the public through the Mormon Literature Database, as described above.

Thank you.

The Mormon Literature Database Committee
Brigham Young University
Harold B. Lee Library