Charis Southwell was born on February 18, 1941, to 
Donald B. and Afton Greenwood in Logan, Utah. In her 
teens she became chronically frail due to a rare disease 
called Lupus. However, she was a high school commencement 
speaker in Sunnyvale, California, and she graduated 
cum laude from the Brigham Young University where her 
poetry won several awards. She died on March 6, 1970, 
at age 29. 

This volume contains some of the poetry from her files, 
including some she did not consider finished. 

                                             WILLIAM H. SOUTHWELL 
November 17, 1971