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Dayna Patterson’s poetry collection If Mother Braids a Waterfall was published by Signature Books in 2020 and won the Association for Mormon Letters Poetry Prize. Her second book, O Lady, Speak Again, which began as her MFA thesis at Western, will be published by Signature Books in 2023. In addition, Dayna’s textile art appeared on the cover of the spring/summer 2021 issue of Sugar House Review.