Karin Anderson’s writing is grounded in complex characters and places of the arid American West. She has published in Western Humanities Review, Quarter After Eight, Fiddleblack, American Literary Review, Seneca Review, Dialogue, and other venues. Writing for Torrey House Press, she is the author of two novels, Before Us Like a Land of Dreams and What Falls Away. Also with Torrey House, she co-edited an anthology of culturally adjacent essays and poems about evolving commitments to the Western environment: Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, and a chapbook collection of short works, Utah Lake Stories. New nonfiction will appear in a forthcoming anthology of essays about the Great Salt Lake and in the premier issue of The Nomad. Her novel Things I Didn’t Do is slated for publication in 2026.