Amy Parker was born in Japan and grew up all over the world. She received a Michener Fellowship in creative writing from the University of Texas, Austin, and went on to spend four years as a student monk at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm–Zen Center in California, and her story “Rainy Season” won Second place in Narrative’s Fall 2011 Story Contest. Parker is a teaching writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received an MFA in 2012.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Rainy Season, a short story, in Winter 2012