Eliot Parker – Guest Artist

Eliot Parker is the author of the recent thriller novel, A Final Call, which was named Best Book to Discover in 2022 by Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Magazine. His short story collection, Snapshots, won the 2020 PenCraft Literary Award and the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Award for Short Story Anthology. His thriller novel, A Knife’s Edge, was an Amazon #1 bestseller. Eliot received the West Virginia Literary Merit Award for his works. He was also a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Thriller Writing in 2016 for his novel Fragile Brilliance. Eliot hosts the podcast program, Now Appalachia, which is heard on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and profiles authors, editors, and publishers with connections to the Appalachian region. A graduate of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University with his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a graduate of Murray State University with his Doctorate in English, Eliot teaches writing at the University of Mississippi.

For more information, please go to www.eliotparker.com