Shirley Smith Ricks spent her growing-up years in Provo, Utah, with her parents and seven siblings. Dr. Ricks filled a mission in Southern Germany, after which she completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Brigham Young University in home economics education and family studies. Married to Stephen D. Ricks, she is proud of their six children and spouses and their nine grandchildren.
Her current position as editor at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University has provided her the opportunity of editing half the volumes in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley and of serving as the first production editor for the FARMS Review and the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies.
FairMormon Conference Presentations
Editing Hugh Nibley: From Manuscript to Book (PDF) (2010)