The trouble starts when, instead of just casting a shadow, I try to identify with it. Given where my multitude stands, the cant of the sun, the shape I’m bodying, my shadow may give an accurate adumbration – but the adumbration hides more than it shows. The shadow is simple, clean, flat, and black.
My “self” is a shadow that my multitude casts. At least, I choose the one over the other again and again. I find that I love this story more than life. Jesus wants me to lose this self and get on with life, but it’s hard. It’s pretty clear, I think, that my “individual” self is largely a story I’m selling myself. His latest novel is Heike’s Void (BCC Press) was published a few months ago.Ĭurrently, he is interested in recording the sounds of the world, birdsong, and teaching an honors class on the music of birds and humans with Steven Ricks at BYU.Am I Siamese? How many conjoin me? How many compose me? How many do I host? How many have I colonized? How wide does my cheesecloth interviduality spread? In 2021, he received the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.
His poetry has appeared in New Myths, Pedestal Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Red Rock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Whitefish Review, and elsewhere. Steve has published two short story collections and two collections of essays. His novel King Leere: Goatherd of the La Sals (BCC Press) was a semi-finalist in Black Lawrence Press early novel prize and received a starred-review from Publishers Weekly. He loves best of all being a writer and has won the Association of Mormon Letters Novel Award twice (The Scholar of Moab (Torrey House Press) Gilda Trillim (Round Fire Press at John Hunt Publishing), and for short story once (Two-Dog Dose). Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and has published over 50 scientific articles in evolutionary ecology, philosophy of biology, and religion. Peck is an ecology professor at Brigham Young University and a fellow of the Neal A.
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