Welcome to Bristlecone Firesides: Summer Sessions! Same great podcast but more good summertime vibes. Madison and Abbey speak with Karin Anderson and Danielle Dubrasky. They are the editors for a forthcoming book Blossom as a Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild published by Torrey House Press. Blossom as a Cliffrose is available for pre-order now and will be released on June 8th of this year.

Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild features original poems and prose by talented writers who are faithful, non-faithful, believers, heretics, converts and de-converts, dragged in or forced out of the Mormon faith. This dynamic collection demonstrates the breadth, complexity, and diversity of a Latter-day Saint legacy of commitment to natural place and challenges us to examine the myriad ways our own deeply rooted heritage shapes our personal relationship with landscape.

Links:
Blossom as the Cliffrose by Torrey House Press

Madison

Madison

Equal parts hippie-mystic, gastronomist, and comic-book nerd, Madison is not your average Mormon. By day he works to protect Utah's wildlands with Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. And by night he cooks, reads, and otherwise lives a pretty normal life. Madison takes great pride in being his niece’s and nephew’s favorite uncle, his three sister’s favorite brother, and his parent's favorite son (he has no brothers to compete with).