Lost Landscapes: Utah's Ghosts, Mysterious Creatures, and Aliens
Linda Dunning has taught school for thirty-two years and has gone to school herself for approximately twenty-two of those years. She has taught children ranging from severely handicapped to resource to gifted and talented. As a writer, Dunning has always searched for that perfect story. She has won several Utah Arts Council writing awards: first place short story in 1980, honorable mention for a collection of short stories in 1987, second place non-fiction book in 1992, and first place autobiography book in 1995. For the last twelve years, she has been on a quest to gather stories about the strange, weird, and ghostly happenings of Utah before they are lost forever. She is also the author of Specters in Doorways, and she contributed to the book Weird U.S. She is presently working on two books: Haunted Dance Halls, Amusement Parks and Theatres of Utah and Early Stage and Screen Stars from Utah. For the last eighteen years, Dunning has done intuitive readings to help those searching for a spiritual path. In her mother- daughter memoir, Light on a Sensitive Surface, Dunning investigates this spiritual journey that she and her mother shared. Dunning and her husband, John, live in Salt Lake City with all of their animals.