Kristen asked Rae Meadows:

You set Calling Out in Salt Lake and I wondered if you have any ties to Mormonism. What is your background? Thanks.

Rae Meadows Hi Kristen. I was in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Utah for two years, which is what took me to Salt Lake City. I don't have any ties to Mormonism other than living in Utah where the LDS church is a large part of the culture. I was just in Salt Lake City last week actually, doing a reading at the King's English Bookshop. I love it there. I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland and San Diego, and have lived many places since including San Francisco, Paris, Madison, Minneapolis and Brooklyn, where I now live. Or by background do you mean religious background? (I am not a religious person but I am very interested in faith, one of the themes of my new novel. I went to Presbyterian church growing up.)

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