Thomas Parker
A reporter (then correspondent in the Middle East and Europe before his military service) and disabled Army veteran pilot, Thomas Parker is an Ashland University grad who underwent graduate studies at The Ohio State University and Kent State University. His short stories have been published in descant, Best New Writing 2014, Echo Ink, and other publications. His drama, The Rings of Saturn, won the Ruby Lloyd Apsey Prize and was mounted at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Parker lives in an assisted-living facility in Denver, Colorado.