Fiona Givens is a retired modern language teacher with undergraduate degrees in French and German and a graduate degree in European History. She is now an independent scholar who has published in several journals and reviews in Mormon Studies, including Journal of Mormon History, Exponent II, and LDS Living. Along with her husband, Terryl Givens, she is the author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life and The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith.

Fiona contributed a chapter to Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics.