Jack Harrell grew up in southeastern Illinois and moved west to Utah in 1981, when he was nineteen years old. His first college class was English 99, a course designed to prepare students for freshman writing. He has since earned degrees from BYU, Illinois State University, and the University of Idaho.
Harrell won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award for his first novel, Vernal Promises, and the Best Short Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters for his collection A Sense of Order and Other Stories. His book Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism won the AML Best Criticism Award. His latest book is the novel Caldera Ridge.
His interests include classic rock and progressive metal music, bird watching, Mormon theology, the works of Flannery O’Connor, and the history of the English language.
Harrell teaches writing at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Harrell won the Marilyn Brown Novel Award for his first novel, Vernal Promises, and the Best Short Fiction Award from the Association for Mormon Letters for his collection A Sense of Order and Other Stories. His book Writing Ourselves: Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism won the AML Best Criticism Award. His latest book is the novel Caldera Ridge.
His interests include classic rock and progressive metal music, bird watching, Mormon theology, the works of Flannery O’Connor, and the history of the English language.
Harrell teaches writing at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
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