Category: Interview
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Salt Lake Tribune: Tamarra Kemsley interviews Millie Tullis on “These Saints are Stones”
For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, family history work represents a sacred obligation to those who came before, as well as a celebrated wellspring of spiritual strength garnered from tales of heroism and tremendous faith. But what if, like Tullis, one excavates pain and tragedy…
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Helicon West interviews Millie Tullis
Helicon West was the first place I ever shared my work publicly—the first place I ever performed. It was the first place I was a featured writer, performing with the USU creative writing contest and the USU slam poetry and flash prose teams, around 2014. . . . it helped…
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Megan Eralie-Henriques interviews Millie Tullis about “These Saints are Stones” for The Turning Leaflets
I love that you started with obsessions. As a kid, I did not walk through Pinto Cemetery thinking, “I’m going to come back to this.” But something about that memory and that moment did stick with me. It’s interesting—our obsessions as writers, what grabs and won’t let go. Memories and…
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Katie Ludlow Rich interviews Millie Tullis on “These Saints are Stones” for Exponent II Blog
I came away from this book genuinely moved, and genuinely changed in how I think about what it means to recover a woman’s life from the historical record, or to acknowledge, with honesty, that some recoveries are simply not possible. Millie’s willingness to let the gaps remain gaps, to make…
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