Elaine Stienon, '57

Love and violence on the American frontier characterize this exciting novel about the early Mormons and their search for a place of peace and freedom. Thwarted in their attempts to settle together in northern Missouri, they flee to Illinois and they establish a city called Nauvoo on the Mississippi. The novel describes their search for a place of refuge, the story of their persecutions, and the ultimate destruction of their city.

As an undergraduate, she won a Hopwwood award for a collection of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, the Bear River Review, and the Writers' Journal. She has recently won the Potomac Review Flash Fiction Contest; the winning entry will appear in the Spring 2012 issue of The Potomac Review.