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Levi Rogers

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Levi Rogers is a Colorado native, writer, and former coffee roaster currently based in the land of the Chinook and Multnomah people. He has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelors of English from the University of Utah. He’s published essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews in Entropy, Sojourners, Lunch Ticket, Drunk Monkeys, Akashic Books, Revolv Magazine, Hoot, A Deeper Story, StandArt, Freshcup, Roast Magazine, and Devour Magazine. His debut novel, Utah! A Novel is forthcoming from Atmosphere Press on April 20th, 2021.

Rogers has attended residencies at the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in 2020, the Tin House Summer Workshop in 2018, and the Writer’s Hotel Conference in 2017. He has read at the Utah A ...more

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Levi Rogers I got the idea for my novel, Utah! A Novel because I wanted to create a story set in Utah to show the true diversity and beauty inherent within the st…moreI got the idea for my novel, Utah! A Novel because I wanted to create a story set in Utah to show the true diversity and beauty inherent within the state that didn't play into stereotypes or caricatures of what the average person living outside of Utah might think. I lived in Utah for 8 years and found a surprisingly different sort of state than what my preconceived notions of it were. I wanted to write a sort of neo-Western, nature-based, Pre-apocalyptic thriller about people in a society set slightly in the future.

I wrote the majority of the novel between 2015-2019 when it felt like there was all this simmering tension beneath U.S. society--the threats of climate change, racial injustice, inequality--and to me it felt like no one was taking these threats seriously. We were arrogant. We kept thinking that we had done everything right and that we would not have to reckon with our past mistakes as a nation or with our threat of destruction for the future. And then of course, in 2020 it all bubbled up to the surface. And yet, some people are still in denial about very real things happening around them-climate change and systemic, racial injustice. I felt like a volcano was an accurate metaphor for both the tension beneath the surface of our thin veneer of society, and the aspects of nature that are out of our control. We can get so arrogant as humans. Natural disasters humble us.

Also, sometimes, on my darkest night, I think it would be best if a Supervolcano went off and destroyed us all. (less)

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Levi Rogers I always have like, 4-5 projects I'm working on at any given time to avoid writer's block. That way, when I have to put something away or feel blocked…moreI always have like, 4-5 projects I'm working on at any given time to avoid writer's block. That way, when I have to put something away or feel blocked on a certain project, I usually find an opening in another one. (less)

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I do most of my writing updates and newsletter on Substack now. Check it out and subscribe if you can! In this week’s update I write about the best places to get drip coffee.

Also, I will be doing my first reading since the pandemic this Saturday, September 10th, at Weller Book Works at 6 PM MST. Come on by if you’re in the SLC area!

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Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories

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