![]() | Out of This World Mary Swander is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. A regular commentator on Iowa Public Radio, she is the author of, among others, The Desert Pilgrim , Heaven-and-Earth House , Driving the Body Back (Iowa paperback, 1998), and Parsnips in the Snow (with Jane Staw, Iowa, 1990), and editor of The Healing Circle: Authors on Recovery from Illness , Bloom and Blossom , and Land of the Fragile Giants (with Cornelia Mutel, Iowa, 1994). |
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