Mary Sojourner (born 1940) is an American novelist, NPR commentator, columnist and environmental and social justice activist.
She fought for women's mental health rights in Rochester, New York in the 1970s and 1980s, and moved to the Southwest in 1985 where she continued her writing and activism.
[5] She has written two memoirs: Solace: Rituals of Loss and Desire and She Bets Her Life;,[6] and a collection of essays, Bonelight: Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest.
[7] She has a monthly writing contest in the Arizona Daily Sun that encourages amateur writers to submit a short piece based on a theme or prompt.
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).