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Mariah Friend is a former ICU nurse turned poet and debut author of The Pattern Shop—a novel about the hopes and fears we inherit and the courage it takes to choose home, again and again. Her poetry has appeared in The Walnut Branch, Poetry South, and Entwined: Motherhood and Creativity. She writes Heartbeats, a newsletter for creative caregivers, and currently lives in the Chattanooga hills with her husband and toddler.

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East of Eden

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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

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