"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
-H.L. Mencken

Bio

After an extended stint in Spain, during which he saw much of Western Europe from the driver's seat of a Volkswagen microbus, M.E. Parker studied literature for two years before he changed course and eventually received a degree in Physics. During this time he had the opportunity to couple his love for the Great American road trip with his soft spot for the environment by developing a working (though unfortunately impractical) prototype of a non-electric, zero-emission vehicle.

M.E. Parker is the editor of the Camera Obscura Journal. He is a writer, a reader, web designer, and a carpenter who imagines a world of wooden computers with leather bound keyboards. M.E. Parker is a pushcart nominated writer whose short fiction has recently surfaced or is scheduled to see daylight in numerous print publications and Internet haunts including 42Opus, Alimentum, The Briar Cliff Review, Flint Hills Review, The MacGuffin, Night Train, Permafrost, Per Contra, Weber: The Contemorary West and many others. His story "My Marrakech" recently won the 2010 Midnight Sun fiction contest.

Resources for Writers

Newpages.com -Anything related to the small press
Duotrope -Comprehensive list of fiction markets
Agent Query-Looking for an agent? Full of great resources on publishing and writing.
Preditors and Editors-where to find out whether that agent you found is reputable.
Bartleby -A bottomless pit of online reference books
Common Errors in English-always helpful
The Phrontistery -Repository for obscure, rare, and lost words

Contact

Mitch E. Parker meparker @ meparker.com

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay