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Sojourner grew up in upstate New New York
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Mary Sojourner
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Her writing and her activism have emerged from the Southwestern deserts, cities and rural towns she came to in 1985 - after living and fighting for women"s mental health rights in Rochester, New York, in the 1970s and 1980s. As a child she was an avid reader. She was a Distinguished Writer in Residence for the Virginia Piper Creative program at Arizona State University in 2007 and has served in residencies, including the Bear Lodge Residency at Devil"s Tower.
She has been a national National Public Radio and local National Public Radio commentator since 1999.
She reviews Southwestern-themed books for the local National Public Radio station, KNAU. Sojourner has been arrested twice. In the 1980s, she was trying to stop uranium mining in a sacred Havasupai meadow thirteen miles south of the Grand Canyon, and in 2011, she was attempting to stop snow-making with waste water on the San Francisco Peaks (sacred to thirteen Southwestern tribes).
Her essay collection, Bonelight, focuses on the environmental and social justice degradation in the New Southwest. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
