For over three decades, Mesa resident M.S.V. Walker built a life in Arizona — raising a family, working nearly two decades as a webmaster at Boeing and falling in love with the rugged beauty of the Superstition Mountains.
But it wasn’t until after a profound personal loss that she found the story she believes she had been meant to tell.
Today, Walker is the author of “Mica Powers and the Legend of the Superstitions,” an award-winning young adult fantasy novel that transforms Arizona’s iconic desert landscape into a world of magic, danger and imagination.
“I feel like the Phoenix rising from the ashes,” Walker said. “I couldn’t let tragedy define me, now could I?”…