Glen Nelson: Mormon Writer

Glen Nelson is a poet, writer, ghostwriter, publisher, and librettist. He founded the Mormon Artists Group, which serves as a kind of patronage for Latter-day Saint artists and creates original works with Latter-day Saint composers, photographers, painters, architects, sculptors, filmmakers, designers, writers, and choreographers. Mormon Artists Group has published Mormoniana and On Sunday, for example. Nelson publishes a monthly e-newsletter called Glimpses, a newsletter of Mormon art, scholarship, and opinions.

He is co-executive director of the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts.

Nelson is the author of Mormons at the Met. Several of his ghostwritten books are New York Times nonfiction bestsellers. He is the author of the e-book The Glen and Marcia Nelson Collection of Mormon Art.

By education and training, Nelson is a literary scholar; James Joyce is his specialty, but he pursued other paths after graduating from New York University.

With Murray Boren as composer, Nelson has written three operas: "The Dead," "The Singer’s Romance," and "The Book of Gold."