Mary Ann Jensen, the 18-year-old author with seven books

Between graduating from high school a few weeks ago, preparing to compete in the Miss Utah pageant this week and getting ready for her first semester at Brigham Young University this fall, Mary Ann Jensen has a packed schedule. Still, she found some time on Monday to talk about something else that keeps her busy.

The 18-year-old Utahn from Cottonwood Heights writes, illustrates and publishes her own books in her free time. This past April, she published her seventh one.

The book, “Rebound,” is the sixth installment in Jensen’s “Sundance Springs” series. Each story follows one member of a friend group living in Sundance Springs, Massachusetts, a fictional town filled with descendants of the Salem Witch Trials…

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