Mariah Proctor received her Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford University. She is a graduate of BYU with a Bachelors in Theater and German. She considers herself a citizen of the world and particularly loves writing about her travels. She began writing a regular column for Meridian as a teenager. She is the recent mother of one wonderful smiley little boy and lives with her husband and son in Lehi, Utah.
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