R. Devan Jensen

R. Devan Jensen

Devan Jensen is the executive editor and social media manager at the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. He and Rosalind Meno Ram are editors of Battlefields to Temple Grounds: Latter-day Saints in Micronesia and Guam. He is a former president of Latter-day Saints in Publishing, Media, and the Arts and helped organize the BYU Latter-day Saint Educators Society. Since joining the RSC in 2001, he has copyedited about 250 books or book-length projects, which garnered many awards. In 2016 he received the BYU President's Appreciation Award, and in 2015 he received the Dean's Award for exceptional service. He has presented at dozens of conferences. He worked previously as an editor for the Ensign magazine, Church Publishing Services Department, and Deseret Book Company. As a National Merit Scholar, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from BYU and has published six books and about fifty-five articles. He is compiling a book on Church members in Micronesia, emerging from his missionary service in Guam and Pohnpei. He and his wife, Patty, live in Orem, Utah, and have four children and one grandaughter.

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