Bryce Christensen

Bio: A native of the Great Basin, Bryce Christensen has lived much of his adult life in the Midwest, where he earned his Ph.D. at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked for a number of years in editorial and research positions at the Rockford Institute in Illinois. Since returning to the Basin in 1996, Dr. Christensen has taught English as a Second Language, writing, and literature at Southern Utah University. The author of Utopia Against the Family (Ignatius, 1990) and Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America (Transaction, 2005), Dr. Christensen has published articles on cultural and literary issues in Philosophy and Literature, Christianity and Literature, Renascence, Modern Age, and various other scholarly journals. His poetry has appeared in The Formalist, Midwest Poetry Review, Tailwind, and elsewhere. His poems have repeatedly been anthologized. He and his wife, Mary, have three sons and one grandson