Creative Bio
Books Fiction
Heike’s Void: A novel. 2022. BCC Press. Whitney Award Nomination, Nominated for Association of Mormon Letters best novel award.
The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals, 2019, (novel) BCC Press. Semi-finalist for the Big Moose Prize for new novel by Black Lawrence Press. Starred-Review at Publishers Weekly. Montaigne Metal Finalist. Short listed for the Eric Hoffer Award for Independent and Academic Presses. Category finalist in Eric Hoffer Awards.
Tales From Pleasant Grove (Short Story Collection), Amazon 2018.
Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats (Novel), Roundfire Press. London and USA. 29 Sept. 2017. (Novel Award winner Association of Mormon Letters (AML) 2017)
Wandering Realities (Short Story Collection) Zarehemla Books, July 2015 (AML Short Story Collection Finalist 2015)
Incorrect Astronomy (Collection of Poetry: 2013) Aldrich Press.
A Short Stay in Hell (Novel: 2012) Strange Violin Editions. (Available in Audio)
Rifts of Rime (Middle Grade Novel: 2012) Cedar Fort Press.
The Scholar of Moab (Novel: 2011) Torrey House Press. Finalist for the Hoffer Montaigne Medal & AML Best Novel of 2011.
Short Stories
Angles of Pleasant Grove, Desolating Sickness: Stories of Pandemic (in response to Covid19) displayed in Harold B. Library August 2020-August 2021.
The Sacrifice (short story) Dialogue, Fall 2019 p. 117-160
Does the Plowman Heed the Mole’s Cry? (Short Story), Last Shot Fired: Midnight Writers’ Anthology 2008.
A Strike to the Heart of the Cannon Lord (Short Story), All Made of Hinges (A Mormon Steampunk Anthology Book 1), 2018 (also available at Audible)
Bishop Johansson Rescues a Lost Soul (Short Story), Dialogue Fall 2016, AML Short Story award finalist 2017.
She That Withheld the Knife (Short Story, 2017) Available on Kindle as reward for web subscribers (this is better than that might imply).
An Incomplete Slaughter (Short Story) The Colored Lens, Summer 2016. (Finalist for Best Short Story 2016 by the Association of Mormon Letters).
Abraham and Thomas: Doubt (Short Story, 2016) In Smith, Julie M. (ed.). As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture. Greg Kofford Books.
At the End of the Eight Volume Epic: All I Want is a Warm Bath and a Good Scroll (Short Story, 1917) The Centropic Oracle
Harbingers (Short Story, 2016), Dark Lane Anthology III, (eds.) K.J. Bishop, Louis Rakovich. Dark Lane Books, London. Also in Tales from Pleasant Grove
Down Courthouse Wash (Short Story) Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine, January 2015
Tales from Pleasant Grove (Short Story) Every Day Fiction, May 2015. Also in Tales from Pleasant Grove the book of the same name.
Two-Dog Dose (Short Story, AML Short Story Award) Dialogue 47(1):140-157 Fall 2014
Démodé. (Short Story: 2014) Nature Physics. 10(1):80 doi:10.1038/nphys2860
The Runners (Short Story, MARCH 18, 2014) Sunstone Magazine
Plague Ship (Short Story:2013). Published in anthologySpace Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars.
A Strange Report From the Archives. (Short Story, 2013) Irreantum 15 (1) (2nd Place contest winner)
How the Mother of Vampiro Rojo de Santanás Died at the Hand of the Ethicless Thing (Short Story, 2013) Silverthought Press Online
The Silence of the River (Short Story, 2013) Quantum Realities Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Quantum Realities: A Journal of Speculative Fiction) (Also available here)
“Avek, Who Is Distributed” 2012 Mormon Lit Blitz Collected in Wandering Realities. Also collected in Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012-2016. 1st place in Four Centuries Contest Also included in collectionWandering Realities.
When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs (Short Story, 2012) Mormon Lit Blitz collected in Wandering Realities and Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012-2016 2nd place Four Centuries Contest. Also included in collectionWandering Realities.
Kayden Abernathy’s Journal Pages 35–37 Partially Recovered from the House Fire (Short Story, 2013)
Mormon Lit Blitz collected in Mormon Lit Blitz Anthology: Volume 1: The First Five Years 2012-2016.
Dragonfly Miscalculations (Short Story: 2012) The Journal of Unlikely Entomology
Question Four (Short Story, 2012 ) Jabberwocky 14
Should I tell her? (Short Story: 2012) Daily Science Fiction.
A Classical Haunting (Short Story, 2012) Lissette’s Tales of Imagination #5
Let the Mountains Tremble for Adoniha has Fallen (Science Fiction Novella: 2011) Monsters and Mormons: Anthology. Peculiar Press. Also included in collectionWandering Realities.
The Problem (Short Story, 2010, Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest Honorable Mention) Sunstone Magazine. Also included in collectionWandering Realities.
Stratton Yellows (short story, 1st prize) Warp and Weave. 2010. UVU sci-fi journal.
Gift of King’s Jeweler (Novel: 2003). Covenant Communications. Also included in collectionWandering Realities.
The Flaw in the Lord Harrington Scenario (Short Story: 2001). HMS Beagle (online science journal by Elsevier)
Poetry
Black and white photo on the shore of Utah Lake 1958 (Poetry), in England, A. & K. Anderson (eds.), Utah Lake Stories: Reflections on a Living Landmark. 2023. Torrey House Press.
The Soul As If Treasured (Poetry, 2023) Wayfare 1 (1). Faith Matters Foundation.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? (Poetry) Irreantum 19(3) Fall 2022.
Sound Coming Undone (poetry), with artist Jackie Leishman. Penumbra. 2022 32:62.
The following three entries are from a project called, Decreation with Jackie Leishman. The names of the poems were taken from the titles of peer reviewed scientific papers. The HBL Library purchased the entire Decreation collection of art and poems.
(1) Decreation: Climate Change, Art, Science and Poetry. With artist Jackie Leishman. (poetry collection, 2019-2020) Whtiefish Review. 13(2): 39-45.
(2) Decreation (poetry collection, 2019) Cold Mountain Review: Fall/Winter 2019 Special Issue on Margins
(3) Decreation (poetry collection, 2020) Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment
Eden’s Cur (poem), Newmyths 43 (June 15, 2018) Also in Passages: Best of NewMyths Anthology, Volume I, 2018
Additions to St. Hildegard’s ‘Physica’ (Poetry) Prairie Schooner. Summer June 1, 2017.
The Steam Wolves Hunt (Poetry, March 31, 2013) Abyss & Apex
What the Ant Knows & Walks the Ape Warder (Poetry: 2012) Silver Blade.
Four Poems. In Fire in the Pasture: Mormon Poetry in the 21st Century. (Poetry: 2011). Peculiar Press.
Nine poems in Wilderness Interface Zone (Poetry, 2010-2011, 2014) all reprinted in my collection Incorrect Astronomy.
The Complete Text of the First Ten Volumes of Dr. Fleckwain’s Very, Very Short Steampunk Novels (Poetry,2011) Pedestal Magazine
The five known sutras of Mechanical Man (Science Fiction/Poetry: 2010) Tales of the Talisman 6:4 (Nominated for the Rhysling Award)
Winter Gifts (Poetry: 2010) Victorian Violet 5
Sage (Poetry: 2008) Red Rock Review July
Ant Lion (Poetry: 2007) Glyphs III, 141-143
Advice on Correct Astronomy (Poetry 1995) BYU Studies Quarterly 35 (1): 40
The Golden Bough Breaks and Down Comes Baby, Cradle and All. (Poetry 1992) Bellowing Ark. 6 (8): 20.
Algonquin Physics””. Bellowing Ark. 5 (8): 21
Advice on Correct Astronomy (Poetry: 1995) BYU Studies 31:1
Reflections of Stellar Ecology (Poetry: 1993) BYU Studies 33:4
Fly Fishing in Middle Earth (Poetry Chapbook,1992) American Tolkien Society
Winton Night Walks (Poetry: 1988) Dialogue 21:2
Creative Writing Awards (fiction and non-fiction)
2023 Nominated for AML (Association of Mormon Letters) Novel Award for Heike’s Void.
2021 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.
Starred-Review at Publishers Weekly. Montaigne Metal Finalist. Short listed for the Eric Hoffer Award for Independent and Academic Presses. Category finalist in Eric Hoffer Awards. Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals.
2017 semi-finalist Big Moose Prize for unpublished literary novel, Black Lawrence Press Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals.
2017 Novel Award Association of Mormon Letters (AML) for Gilda Trillim Shepherdess of Rats.
2016 Nominated for AML Best Short Story for Incomplete Slaughter.
2015 Nominated for AML best short story collection Wandering Realities.
2014 Association of Mormon Letters Best Short Story for Two-dog Dose, Dialogue
2012 Irreantum Literary Fiction Contest 2nd Place
2012 Best Novel published in 2011, Association of Mormon Letters, Finalist for the Hoffer Montaigne Medal, for The Scholar of Moab, Torrey House Press.
2011 Nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Rhysling Award for “The five known sutras of Mechanical Man.”
2010 Sunstone Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest, 2nd Place .
2010 Honorable mention in the 2010 Brookie and D.K. Brown Fiction Contest for The Problem
2010 Warp and Weave Science Fiction Short story 1st place for Stratton Yellows.
Other Publications (non-peer reviewed)
Peck, S. L. What Intelligent Life in the Universe Will Look Like (Should We Find It); Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, March 2015
Peck, S. L. My view: Who will do the science if Western land grab is successful? Deseret News, March 17, 2013
Peck, S. L. 2011. Why Nature Matters. Dialogue. 44(2): 1-5.
Mike Caprio, John Glaser, Rick Hellmich, David Onstad, and Steven L. Peck. 2010 Framework for Evaluation of IRM Models: Report to EPA. Submitted Reference number pending.
Peck, S. L. 2010. Crawling out of the primordial soup: a step toward the emergence of an LDS theology compatible with organic evolution. Dialogue 43:1-36
Peck S. L. My Madness. Dialogue. 2008. 41:57-70.
Peck, S. L. Science Suffers when getting a grant becomes the goal. (Commentary: 2008). Chronicle of Higher Education. Oct. 10th, 2008.
Peck, S. L. America adds a shameful chapter to the history of torture. (op ed: 2008) Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed, 03/07/2008.
Peck, S. L. Intelligent Design fails as a pretense to science that tries to set religion and evolution at odds. (op ed: 2008) Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed, 05/09/2008.
Peck, S. L. 2006. An ecologist’s view of LDS culture and the current environmental crisis. In, Handley, G., T. Ball, and S. L. Peck eds. Sacred Stewardship: LDS Perspectives on the Environment. Religious Studies Center Publication. Provo, UT.
Handley, G., T. Ball, and S. L. Peck. 2006. Sacred Stewardship: LDS Perspectives on the Environment. Religious Studies Center Publication. Provo, UT.
Peck, S. L. 2005. The current philosophy of consciousness landscape: where does LDS thought fit? Dialogue. 38: 36-64.
Peck, S. L. 1995. Water, Mud and Insects. The Friend (Children’s magazine). May 1995.
Heck, W. W., C. L. Campbell, A. L. Finkner, C. M. Hayes, G. R. Hess, J. R. Meyer, M. J. Munster, D. Neher, S. L. Peck, J. O. Rawlings, C. N. Smith, M. B. Tooley. 1993. Agroecosystem 1992 Pilot Project Plan. EPA/620/R-93/010.
Peck, S. L., J. O. Rawlings and A. L. Finkner. 1992. A comparison of sampling design options for EMAP-Agroecosystems Group. American Statistical Association 1991 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods. pp. 191-195.
Heck. W.W., C. L. Campbell, R. P. Breckenridge, G. E. Byers, A. L. Finkner, G. R. Hess, J. R. Meyer, T. J. Moser, S. L. Peck, J. O. Rawlings, and C. N. Smith. 1991. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)- Agroecosystem Monitoring and Research Strategy. EPA/600/4-91/013.
Peck, S. L. 1988. A Discrete Event Simulation Of Macarthur-Wilson Equilibrium Theory In Island Biogeography. Masters Paper For Fulfilling The Requirements For A Master Of Science Degree In Biostatistics At The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill.