Mary Sojourner immigrated to Flagstaff, Arizona January 1985, with two intentions: to write and fight for the earth.
Results of her vow include:
Sisters of the Dream, a novel of 12th Century Northern Arizona (Northland Publishing, 1989 out-of-print)
Delicate, short story collection (Nevermore Press, 2001; Scribner, 2004.)
Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest, essay collection, U. of Nevada Press, 2003; paperback, 2004.
Solace: rituals of loss and desire, memoir/essay, Simon and Schuster/Scribner, 2004.
Wordsmithing, twice-monthly column on writing, Flag Live!
Short fiction
Essays
Writers on the Range syndicated columns, National Public Radio national commentaries Sporadic appearances on local telephone poles and in cafes of her environmental/social justice column, Open Space.
A rare wetland in the heart of a dead volcano protected from development; an ancient meadow not penetrated by a breccia pipe uranium mine; the beginning of the healing of a pumice mine scar on the Sacred Mountains north of Flagstaff; the on-going battle to stop Snowbowl ski resort from making artificial snow from wastewater on those same mountains.
She wrote alone; the earth-work is always in the company of kin.
Mary Sojourner teaches writing throughout the Southwest.
She also teaches writing throughout the West.
For more information about Mary Sojourner go to www.magictails.com/marysojourner.html
