On Friday, October 10, Author Phyllis Barber will be reading excerpts from her new book To the Mountain at the Canyon Community Center in Springdale at 7:00pm.

A native of Nevada and now a resident of Park City, Utah, Phyllis Barber writes about the West, the desert, the Mormons who played a significant role in settling the West and creating the person she’s become, and about matters of the spirit with its familiar and unfamiliar reaches. She is the author of many award-winning stories, articles, essays, and books, in addition to  being the mother of four sons, teaching fiction and creative nonfiction in the MFA in Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (from which she recently retired). In 2005, Phyllis Barber was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

Her newest book, To the Mountain: One Mormon Woman’s Search for Spirit, is the story of the author’s twenty-year hiatus from Mormonism and her visits with shamans in Peru and Ecuador, Tibetan Buddhist monks in North India and Tibet, a variety of Baptist congregations in the South, travels with goddess worshipers in the Yucatan, and much more. The book’s purpose is to demonstrate how we can not only tolerate a variety of ideas in the spiritual realm, but can learn from their wisdom.

For more information on Ms. Barber, go to her website at http://phyllisbarber.squarespace.com.

Support for this event provided by Southern Utah University

 

This project is supported by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts .

 

Support for this event provided by The National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works