Lavina Fielding Anderson, president of Editing, Inc., is copy editor of the Journal of Mormon History, and past copy editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and The Review of Higher Education. She is a trustee of the Mormon Alliance, former editor of the Journal of Mormon History, former associate editor of the Ensign, former associate editor and co-associate editor of Dialogue, and past president of the Association for Mormon Letters. An honorary life member of the Association for Mormon Letters and the Mormon History Association, she is currently researching Lucy Mack Smith and J. Golden Kimball.

Lavina is a co-editor of Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century and Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism. She also contributed a chapter to Latter-day Dissent: At the Crossroads of Intellectual Inquiry and Ecclesiastical Authority.