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Mar/Apr 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 2 |

Currents and Eddies

By Mary O. Parker

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Mary O. Parker is the 2019 recipient of the Mississippi Review Creative Nonfiction Prize and the winner of Reed Magazine’s 2015 Gabriele Rico Challenge in Creative Nonfiction. Her book Explore Texas: A Nature Travel Guide (Texas A&M University Press, 2016) received an Excellence in Craft Award from the Texas Outdoor Writers Association. Mary O. lives on a small nature preserve in Central Texas.

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