Edward L. Hart, born and reared in Bloomington, Idaho, resides in Provo, Utah where he has been a professor of English at Brigham Young University for many years. Hart has taught at the universities of Washington, Utah, California (Berkeley); has served as president of Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and has won an award in poetry in the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts competition (1963). In addition to being a Rhodes Scholar (at Oxford University) and a conference champion miler (1939), Hart has published Minor Lives (1971), Instruction and Delight (1976), and Mormon in Motion: The Life and Journals of James H. Hart (1978). His collections of poetrys include To Utah, which won the 1980 AML award for Poetry, Poems of Praise (1980), and God's Spies (1983). He is also well known for his many articles and book reviews, and received a first prize award in poetry and biography from the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts in 1973 and 1975. His work has been widely anthologized.