Mormon and Latter-day Saint Publishing

Gary James Bergera is the managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation and the company director of Signature Books, both of Salt Lake City, Utah. He is author of Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young; co-author of Brigham Young University: A House of Faith; editor of Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine, The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, and Statements of the LDS First Presidency: A Topical Compendium; and co-editor of Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed: A Documentary History, 1842-1845, and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies: A Documentary History, 1845-1846. Most recently, he edited the Leonard J. Arrington diaries, published in three volumes as Confessions of a Mormon Historian. Bergera’s publications have received awards from the Dialogue Foundation, the Mormon History Association, and the Utah Historical Society. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mormon History and the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal; and previously was managing editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is the 2018 recipient of the Leonard J. Arrington lifetime achievement award from the Mormon History Association.

Loyd Isao Ericson received his B.S. in philosophy at Utah Valley University and pursued an M.A. in philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University. Since 2009 he has been the managing editor of Greg Kofford Books and has been published in Sunstone, Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, and the Claremont Journal of Mormon Studies, which he helped found. He is the co-editor of two volumes, Discourses in Mormon Theology: Philosophical and Theological Possibilities and Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics, both published with Greg Kofford Books.

Scott C. Esplin is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. He is also the publications director for BYU’s Religious Studies Center. He is the author of books and articles on the Doctrine and Covenants, Church historic sites, and Church education.

Matthew J. Grow is managing director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint and a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers. He served as director of publications at the Church History Department from 2010 to 2019. He has coedited two recent volumes from the Church Historian’s Press: The First Fifty Years of Relief Society and The Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846. He has also authored or coauthored books with Oxford University Press and Yale University Press, including award-winning biographies of Parley P. Pratt and Thomas L. Kane. Grow has published in various scholarly journals, including Journal of the Early Republic, Church History, American Nineteenth-Century History, and Journal of Mormon History. He was previously an assistant professor of history and director of the Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. He received his PhD in American history from the University of Notre Dame.

Kristine Haglund was editor of Dialogue from 2009-2015. She has blogged at By Common Consent since its founding, and serves on the board of the BCC Press. She is the mother of three excellent children and lives with her husband in Phoenix, AZ.

Riley M. Lorimer is associate editorial manager for the Church Historian’s Press. She is also a member of the Church History Department Editorial Board. She coedited the second volume in the Revelations and Translations series (published 2011). She received a BA in English with a minor in editing from Brigham Young University and an MA in English, with an emphasis in British literature, from the University of Utah. In 2011, she completed training at the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents in Boston, and in 2017, she received a graduate certificate in editing from the University of Chicago.