Dean Hughes

Dean Hughes has published more than ninety books. He writes for all ages: children,
young adults and adults. He is best known for Children of the Promise and Hearts of the
Children, a double series of historical novels about the World War II era and the 1960’s.
He graduated with a BA from Weber State University and holds an MA in creative
writing and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Washington. He spent the early
years of his career as an English professor at Central Missouri State University but left
to write full-time, which he did for seventeen years. He combined writing with teaching
while at Brigham Young University from 1997 to 2002, and again from 2005 to 2008 He
and his wife then served a two-year Public Affairs mission in Nauvoo, Illinois. He has
served as a bishop and is currently serving as a High Counselor. Dean and Kathy Hughes
have three children and nine grandchildren. They live in Midway, Utah.

 

Kathleen H. Hughes

Kathleen H. Hughes was born in Tooele, Utah and lived in Utah and in Virginia. She graduated from
Weber High School in Ogden, Utah and with her Bachelor’s degree in English Education from Weber
State College. She completed her Masters degree in Special Education at Central Missouri State
University and has completed work toward her doctorate at USU, U of U, and BYU. She was a public
school teacher and administrator for 30 years in Utah, Washington, and Missouri. She retired from
Provo School District in May 2002 to accept a position as First Counselor in the General Relief Society
Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in that position until April 2007.

Kathy is married to Dean Hughes who is a writer and a retired professor of Creative Writing at Brigham
Young University. They are the parents of 3 children and 9 grandchildren. She loves to sew, to read,
and to learn. She and Dean served as Public Affairs missionaries in the Nauvoo Illinois Mission from
September 2008 through August 2010.

She feels extremely blessed to have had the opportunity to meet so many women throughout
the world. She learns from and is blessed by the incredible women of the Relief Society of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.