Boyd Jay Petersen

Boyd Jay Petersen is the Program Coordinator for Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University and Editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is the author of Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life and Dead Wood and Rushing Water: Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family and has been published in the Journal of Mormon History and The New York Review of Science Fiction. He served as Book Review Editor for the Journal of Mormon History and is past president of the Association of Mormon Letters.

Boyd is the author of Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life and Dead Wood and Rushing Water: Essays on Mormon Faith, Culture, and Family and co-editor of The Expanded Canon: Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts. He has also contributed chapters to Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism and War & Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives .