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Book recommendations, essays, and author interviews from the author of Eve’s Garden and Weaver’s Knot. With a little frisson of rebellion and a love of history’s lessons.

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About Glenda

Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel, Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014) and Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Her work appears in various literary journals, anthologies, and news outlets.

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