Parker is a career student and obsessive reader who loves learning and reading about... everything.

 

Though born and raised in the U.S., Parker spent a few years (off and on) living in Taiwan and found herself needing to relearn English when she was younger. Thankfully, there was a lovely saleslady at the local Thrift Store who allowed Parker to buy books by the bag. On a near-weekly basis, Parker would fill a grocery bag worth or mostly Harlequin books for $3, learning about everything from cucumber sandwiches (many of these were set in England) to how people earn those happily-ever-afters.

Parker tries to fill her books full of her past educational experiences (four degrees, from MIT to USC, meaning you'll see a lot of stories set in or around academia) and  past traveling adventures (living in five states and four countries and too many cities and not-quite-towns to list).