ABOUT DORIANN:

DoriAnn was born and raised in Colorado City, Arizona, and comes from a long line of polygamists dating back to her ancestor, Parley P. Pratt, one of the original Mormon pioneers. DoriAnn and her immediate family left Colorado City over 25 years ago, eventually helping to establish a more progressive branch of Mormon fundamentalism in the nearby community of Centennial Park. After a turbulent childhood, DoriAnn ran away to live with relatives in a Mormon fundamentalist compound in Mexico. There she met and married her first husband at age 16, living with him throughout Mexico and Central America. DoriAnn and her first husband had eight children together in a monogamous marriage, although they ultimately divorced.

DoriAnn returned to her birthplace on the Utah/Arizona border in 1997, and two years later became the second wife to her younger sister’s husband. In the nearly ten years DoriAnn has been a part of this plural marriage, she has borne another four children. Today DoriAnn has immediate family members practicing polygamy from western Canada, all the way to northern Mexico and beyond. Her life's joy is spending time with her husband, her children—Amanda, Kevin, William, Benjamin, Miriam, Brandon, Rebecca, Esther, Stephen, Curtis and Simeon—as well as her first grandson and other family members.

To read more about DoriAnn, visit her personal blog at: http://www.rebirthingcenters.com.