Memories of Red Clay

This achingly intimate record lays bare one person&;s experience growing up in a rural Mormon community and struggling to reconcile his sexuality with the religious doctrine of his childhood. Finding solace and connection in wild places, Jonathan T. Bailey lived two lives&;one of trauma, the other of wonder. In When I Was Red Clay, he navigates self&;discovery, grief, and the loss of faith with unflinching honesty and biting humor.


JONATHAN T. BAILEY is a conservation photographer with a background in cultural resources. Author of the literary memoir When I Was Red Clay: A Journey of Identity, Healing, and Wonder and the photograph and essay collection Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape, his work has been published in Archaeology Southwest, the Salt Lake Tribune, Indian Country Today, and elsewhere. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.