Phyllis Barber describes her latest memoir, Raw Edges, as "a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story; the account of a bright-eyed young Mormon couple ([her]self and [her] husband David) who went through an agonizing process in [their] thirty-three-year marriage, sparked by differing matters of faith and subsequent infidelity." Author of How I Got Cultured, A Nevada Memoir, as well as other fiction titles, Barber was born in Nevada and grew up in Boulder City and Las Vegas. She can trace her family's Nevada roots to the 1860s. Trained as a classical pianist, she has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Symphony, among other achievements.