Jennifer A. Nielsen

LTUE 43 GUEST OF HONOR

Jennifer A. Nielsen is the #1 New York Times Bestseller of several books for young readers, including THE FALSE PRINCE, A NIGHT DIVIDED, UPRISING, and her forthcoming title, ONE WRONG STEP. She also serves as the Utah Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Jennifer lives in Northern Utah with her family.

Jennifer A. Nielsen Website

Paul Durham

LTUE 43 GUEST OF HONOR

Paul Durham is the award-winning author of The Luck Uglies series (HarperCollins) and The Last Gargoyle (Crown). The Luck Uglies has been translated into six languages, and was named an ALA Notable Book and a New York Public Library Top 100 Book For Reading and Sharing. Paul was raised in Massachusetts and attended college and law school in Boston. He has a not-so-secret alter ego as a corporate and intellectual property lawyer, and now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two daughters. He writes in an abandoned chicken coop at the edge of a swamp and keeps a tiny porcelain frog in his pocket for good luck.

Paul Durham Website

Cameron Hopkin

LTUE 43 TOASTMASTER

 Cameron is a novelist and lecturer of psychology living in the Mountain West of the United States. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the fifth and final son of a grade-school teacher and a university professor. Over the years he has worked as an actor, a construction worker, a call-center desk jockey, a wedding DJ, a waiter, a theatrical set-builder, a census employee, a janitor, and a research assistant. Through it all, he was a voracious reading of fantasy and science fiction, and at some point he got it through his thick skull that writing them was even more fun than reading them. He lives with his wife, four daughters, dozens of chickens, and an avalanche of dogs in a state of absolute pandemonium. He began as an undergraduate at BYU and is happy to be back at BYU as a professor. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Duke University in 2015.