Scott Hales

Essays

“I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go,” Liahona, January 2026

“Hands of Fellowship,” Wayfare, 29 December 2025

“Local Hero,” Wayfare, 23 July 2024

Poetry

“Big City Prophet,” Irreantum, Christmas 2025

“Proxies,” Wayfare, 3 October 2025

“Joseph Standing’s Gun,” Irreantum, Spring 2025

“The Great Mystery; or, Isabelle Berry on the Eve of Her Demise,” Irreantum, Spring 2025

“Advice to a Young Mormon Poet,” Irreantum, Fall 2024

“Resurrection Prayer,” Irreantum, Fall 2024

“Pioneer Ascension,” Wayfare, 1 June 2024

“Holy Envy,” Vita Poetica, Spring 2024

“Portrait of a Lady Without Hands: A Postmortem,” Inscape, 2024

“Running Through Cedar Pass at Sunrise,” The Under Review, Winter 2023

“Six Afterlives,” BYU Studies, 2019

Scholarship

“Recorded in Heaven: The Testimonies of Len and Mary Hope,” BYU Studies, 2023

“More than a ‘Subspecies of American Literature’: Obstacles toward a Transnational Mormon Novel,” Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2015

“Of Many Hearts and Many Minds: The Mormon Novel and the Post-Utopian Challenge of Assimilation,” Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014

“‘All is Poe’: Reading Poe in Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House,’” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2010

Short Fiction

“The Mechanics of Creation,” Wayfare, 26 September 2024

“The Hills of Heaven,” Mormon Lit Blitz, 10 July 2019

“Living Scriptures,” Dialogue, Spring 2015