Tom Williams
UPR Management | Program Director | Access Utah HostTom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley’s book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong. -
We check in with Susan Madsen, director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, about what research shows about Utah women's health, finances, and work lives. -
Reporters Julie Jag, Leia Larsen, and Clarissa Casper talk about the latest news, including how a small Utah recreation gem is trying to avoid becoming Moab after catching attention. -
Congress and the Trump Administration have stripped away critical funding that stations like Utah Public Radio rely on. We are determined to keep broadcasting, but we need your support. -
We talk with Dan Murphy, whose collection of poems "Estate Sale" was published by University of Utah Press. He won the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. -
Carrie Sheffield grew up with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday. -
We talk with Margaret Brucia, author of "The Key to Everything: May Swenson, A Writer’s Life." May Swenson was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. -
Tribune reporters Paighten Harkins, Leia Larsen, and Courtney Tanner join us this week to talk about the latest news, including an increasing need for homeless services in Utah County and more. -
Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. We revisit our conversatin from March. -
In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains. We revisit our conversation.
