My current writing projects include a thriller about Mormon missionaries in Brazil caught up in a murder investigation, a detective novel set in Salt Lake City, and various other stories and poems.

My collection of missionary-memoir short stories is called All the Great Lights.

My stories and poetry have appeared in Dialogue, Irreantum, BYU Studies, and Popcorn Popping, including:

Stories:
“The Flesh,” Irreantum, (forthcoming)
“Outside,” Irreantum, Summer 2009 (3rd Place, Irreantum Contest)
“Triptych: Plural,” Dialogue, Summer 2009
“Talk,” Popcorn Popping, 2007
“Where We Lay Our Scene,” Dialogue, Spring 2007
“Every Member,” Popcorn Popping, 2007
“Returned,” Popcorn Popping, 2006
“They Wandered in Deserts,” Irreantum, Fall 2005 (2nd Place, Irreantum Contest)

Poems:
“Ripple Rock” and “Sisyphus,” Dialogue, (forthcoming)
“Reliquary” and “Prayer,” BYU Studies, 2006 (2nd and 3rd Place, BYU Studies Contest)
“All the Signs,” “Some Pieces of Plastic,” and “Beset,” Popcorn Popping, 2006

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I also practice law in Utah and Idaho. My firm is called Peck Hadfield Baxter & Moore, LLC, and I blog on legal issues at www.utahlawblog.com.