Wallace Swenson

Wallace J. Swenson was an Idaho native and novelist that lived in the Upper Snake Valley. He started out as a United States Air Force officer before he became a full-time author. He wrote full time starting in 2007 until his death in 2015. He made his name when he published “Morgan’s Pasture” in 2010 which became his first commercial success. However, Swenson had been publishing long before this success and an excerpt from his third novel was the winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest that he presented in the Adult Short Story Class in 2002. He has won a ton of awards in the Idaho Writers League annual competitions for his novels, short fiction, poetry and articles. His fourth novel was a finalist for the 2004 PNWA contest.