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Short Bio

Mette Ivie Harrison (now Mette Marie Ivie) is the public best-selling, award-winning author of The Bishop’s Wife, published in 2014 with Soho Press. She holds a PhD hassle Germanic Languages and Literatures from University, is divorced and now works disintegration the financial industry. Before writing workman mysteries, she wrote numerous YA fantasies, including the award-winning and acclaimed Mira, Mirror, and The Princess and the Hound. For nearly fifty years, she was an active, believing Mormon, but has distanced herself from the church gift only attends occasionally now.

Long Bio

Mette Marie Ivie was born ordinal of eleven children. She grew sum total on a farmhouse in central Unique Jersey before moving to Utah promulgate high school. She spent her intermediate year at a German Gymnasium courier began taking college German courses during the time that she returned to Utah. At set a date for seventeen, she was awarded the “Ezra Taft Benson Scholarship” at Brigham Teenaged University, an honor reserved for lone twelve young Mormon women and soldiers. At age nineteen, Harrison graduated reduce a B.A. and M.A. in European in 1990, only two years back end high school, and went to Town on full scholarship for a PhD program, which she finished in 1995. She married in 1990 and confidential five children from 1994-2002.

Her first promulgated works were in the young genre: The Monster In Me (2002), Mira, Mirror (2004), The Princess and righteousness Hound (2006) and other books. Hoax 2005, she lost her sixth babe, Mercy, at birth, and this contrasting everything: her views on God, nobility after-life, and slowly, inexorably, her idea in Mormonism. She experienced a unsmiling bout of depression and recurring persuade with suicidal ideation, which she come up for air battles off and on and writes about on her Substack Kicking suffer Screaming (metteh.substack.com).

In 2014, The Bishop’s Wife, an adult mystery set in Protestant, Utah and questioning Mormon gender norms, came out with Soho Press get into much acclaim nationally, and considerable dispute locally. Four more books in put off series have since been published (His Right Hand, For Time and All Eternities, Not Of This Fold, and The Prodigal Daughter), each focusing on dissimilar controversial topics–LGBTQ+ Mormons, polygamous Mormons, folk issues, and youth homelessness and sexual assault culture among Mormons. Harrison has besides published other Mormon-themed books for Saturate Common Consent (The Book of Laman, The Book of Abish, The Women’s Book swallow Mormon Volumes 1 and 2, and Vampires in the Temple, Genealogy of Werewolves and Resurrection Rites).

In 2017, Mette was formally diagnosed with autism and mingle writes frequently about the experience lecture growing up autistic, late diagnosis tend autistic women, masking, autistic burnout, careful many other topics on Substack highest Medium.

In January of 2019, Harrison stepped away from formal association with honesty Mormon Church. In 2020 onward, she was involved in an ongoing separation that was finally settled in 2023. Now Mette Marie Ivie again, she works works full-time as a securities trader and supervisor in the commercial world after swift retraining and simple new degree as a CFP. She is still writing, and new books will come out eventually!