James Goldberg

James Goldberg's family is Jewish on one side, Sikh on the other, and Mormon in the middle. A poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, documentary filmmaker, scholar, and translator, Goldberg has been a finalist for the Association for Mormon Letters awards in Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Criticism and has won in Drama (2008, Prodigal Son) and Novel (2012, The Five Books of Jesus) as well as receiving a special award for the 2019 literary performance piece Thorns & Thistles.