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Mary L. Holden, a freelance editor and writer in Phoenix, is the author of Yavapai: 12 Poems in Honor of Arizona’s Centennial, 1912–2012. She will self-publish a novel, Quail: A Lifetime in the State of Arizona, in late 2023.

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Territorial Taxonomy: On Melissa L. Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River”

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Mary L. Holden, a freelance editor and writer in Phoenix, is the author of Yavapai: 12 Poems in Honor of Arizona’s Centennial, 1912–2012. She will self-publish a novel, Quail: A Lifetime in the State of Arizona, in late 2023.

Mary L. Holden

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Territorial Taxonomy: On Melissa L. Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River”