Where is the Mormon literary fiction?

I'd never really thought about why I don't read very many novelists who happen to be Mormons, but (quite simply) there aren't very many who write literary fiction. This provocative article, in the New York Times, tackles the question by interviewing Mormon authors. One, Shannon Hale, argues "that literary fiction tends to exalt the tragic, or the gloomy, while Mormon culture prefers the sunny and optimistic." Another, Rachel Ann Nunes, adds, "'I’ll tell you why they write young adult,' said Ms. Nunes. 'Because they don’t have to write the pages and pages of sex. They don’t want to spend a lot of time in the bedroom.'"