Margaret Blair Young teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. An accomplished author, she has won numerous awards from the Utah Arts Council, including Best Short Story Collection for Elegies and Love Songs (which also captured Best Short Story Collection of the Year from the Association of Mormon Letters); Best Novel of the Year in 1992 for Salvador, and Best Novel of the Year in 1995 for Merry’s Daughters.

She has also written three plays, two of which have been produced at BYU, including Dear Stone and I Am Jane. Margaret also teaches at the Spanish Institute at BYU.

She says working on Standing on the Promises: One More River to Cross was ‘totally different than anything I’ve ever written. I felt completely inspired with each page, and everything else I’ve written prepared me for this.’

Margaret and her husband, Bruce, a professor of English at BYU, are the parents of four children and live in Provo, Utah.