SunstoneBlog Announcing the First of Several New Contributors: Stephen Carter
Over the next few weeks and months, SunstoneBlog will be announcing a new team of bloggers. It is my distinct pleasure to announce our first contributor — none other than THE Stephen Carter. Welcome Stephen! Bio below….
Stephen was pulled into this world on a crisp spring morning a little more than 30 years ago. He immediately made his opinion of the event known. His eloquence moved everyone in the room. The doctor who delivered him ran away with the nurse to an Eastern Bloc country soon after Stephen’s debut. The country club where Stephen was named and blessed was demolished to make room for the Provo Towne Centre. And finally, the hospital he was born in came a crashing down even as Stephen covered the event for a newspaper. In other words, most traces of Stephen’s nativity have been obliterated. The only other two witnesses to the event would probably be deemed inadmissible in a court of law.
To make up for this lack of proof of his existence, Stephen has been opining in writing (mostly unpaid) with a frequency his “mother” would call “cute.”
Stephen developed a callous on his knuckles in Toronto, Ontario, while walking around in a pair of Florsheims, a vaguely white shirt, and a polyester tie. Then, after his best two years, Stephen decided to have ten even better years. So he married his high school sweetheart, Noelle, had two children with her, and attended UVSC where he worked with Gene England who was then developing the Mormon Studies program. After that he attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks with his wife where they both received an MFA in creative writing, and a Ph.D. in integrated studies. Stephen focused his dissertation on the writings of first-year teachers in rural Alaska, and Noelle on interpreting children’s perceptions of school through Captain Underpants books. Stephen is extremely jealous.
Currently Stephen is editing a feature length documentary film on first-year teachers in rural Alaska, which, through no fault of his own, stars three Mormons and two Lutherans. He also spends his time editing the Sugar Beet page and the SunstoneLit podcast for Sunstone, and contributing occasional essays to Dialogue, Sunstone, and Irreantum. His current favorite band is A Perfect Circle. His favorite miniseries: Angels in America. And favorite cheese: smoked Gouda.
Contributions welcome.
March 24th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Welcome, Stephen. Lookin’ forward to it. And I have two “Perfect Circle” albums and like them a lot too.
March 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Welcome Stephen. I dug your teaching styles article. (I don’t really dig A Perfect Circle though… oh well)
March 25th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Interesting how you’ve joined.
I might have to drop by and put up a link from my site.
March 26th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Stephen, I read your bio just after commenting on your “States of Mess”. I should have known you were influenced by my dear friend Gene England! Gene and I first met in grad school at the U of U in 1960 and there formed a 5 man study group. After a year or so he moved to Stanford and then founded Dialogue. Gene was my severest critic, yet remained one of my closest and most faithful friends–especially after my life fell apart (as he had feared) years later.
Glad to begin to know you.
March 26th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Geoff wrote:
Welcome Stephen. I dug your teaching styles article. (I don’t really dig A Perfect Circle though… oh well)
Steve Writes:
Well, recently I’ve really gotten into Mogwai and Explosions In the Sky. Does that help?