Mormon Literature Database - Brimley, Dawn Baker

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Dawn Baker Brimley
Dawn Baker Brimley was born in Monroe, Utah, and draws insight from her childhood experiences near the mountains and lakes of Utah. She spent every summer until the age of twenty living at Fish Lake, Utah. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University in sociology and psychology. She also has the equivalent of a major in English. A former BYU faculty member, she has taught children’s literature there and elsewhere. She has won several awards for her poetry, including the first place in BYU Eisteddfod competition in lyric poetry and the Ensign’s Eliza R. Snow poetry competition and second place in the BYU Studies poetry contest. For four years she was on the Church’s writing committee, working on Relief Society lessons. She has also written song lyrics, most notably “Thy Will and Work” with composer Newell Dayley. She is married to Dr. Vern Brimley and is the mother of three daughters, grandmother of ten, and great-grandmother of a great-granddaughter. She has published a book of poetry entitled Waking Moments (1989) and is working on another. One of her poems was accepted for the 2004 war and peace issue of Dialogue. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 105]

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Birth Date

1932

Works by Dawn Baker Brimley Sort by title	Year	Genre
Full Circle Summer	2004	Poetry
Not Far Behind	2004	Poetry
Old Language	1995	Poetry
Waking Moments: Poems	1989	Poetry Collection
Still Sounds of Winter	1984	Poetry
Sanctuary	1982	Poetry
The Deer	1979	Poetry
Koosharem, Utah--1914	1977	Poetry
To a Daughter	1976	Poetry
Whatever Was		Poetry