George B. Handley

George Handley teaches environmental humanities at Brigham Young University and writes and researches on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment, with a special interest in postcolonial literature. His articles have appeared in Callaloo, Modern Fiction Studies, Environmental Humanities, Angelaki, ISLE, Mississippi Quarterly, and other journals. His scholarship has also focused on the environmental values of Mormonism and he frequently speaks publicly in his home state of Utah about environmental values and issues. In addition to his scholarly writing, he writes creatively, and this work includes his environmental memoir, Home Waters, which won the 2011 prize for best memoir from the Association of Mormon Letters and his novel (with Roundfire Books) American Fork, which was a finalist for the best book in fiction in Utah in 2019.