In a misguided attempt to summon the Muse Robyn Parnell once saw the profile of the love child of Oprah Winfrey and Jack London formed by the dust on her desk. She sipped a caffeinated beverage until the image faded. Parnell, an Author's Guild/SCBWI member, is published in numerous books and journals, most of which have not filed Chapter 11. Notable credits include a short fiction collection "This Here and Now" and a children's book "My Closet Threw a Party"; less notable credits are not noted in this notation. Current projects include adult and juvenile novels, a short fiction collection and a children's picture book. When not writing, Parnell rehearses her NEA grant refusal speech and considers obtaining professional help to compose a more ostentatious Author's Bio.

The Mighty Quinn (Scarletta Press, 2013), Another Word For Hope (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2009), My Closet Threw a Party (Sterling Publishing, 2005), This Here & Now (Scrivenery Press, 2000), Supplicants - An Advent Drama (Encore Publishing, 1999)

Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories from the Left Hand of God (Hourglass Books, 2007), Ciela Looks Up (Oregon Writers Colony Anthology, 2006), Missing Spoke Press Anthology (Missing Spoke Press, 1998), Children's Storybook (Cherubic Press, 1997), Strictly Fiction (Potpourri Press, 1995), Feminist Parenting (Crossing Press, 1994)

Affair of the Mind, American Jones Building & Maintenance, Ancient Paths, Anthology Magazine, ATOM, Belletrist Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Bellowing Ark, Burning Light, Butterfly Chronicles, Cab Literary Magazine, Cafe Eighties, ChickaDEE, Dislocate Literary Journal, Dream International Quarterly, Ellipsis, Exhibition, Feminist Baseball, Flummery Press, Friction, Generation X National Journal, Happy, Innisfree, KidTime Magazine, Lines in the Sand, Lynx Eye, Midnight Zoo, Mobius, Mslexia, Northwest Literary Forum, Oasis, Panamowa: A New Lit Order, Pangolin Papers, Penduline, Pica, ProCreation, r.kv.r.y., Raintown Review, Rant, Rosewell Literary Review, Satire, Schmaga, Seattle Review, Spring Hill Review, Stoneflower, SunRiver Sun, Talking River Review, The Bear Deluxe Magazine, The Externalist, The First Line, The Stoneslide Corrective, The Writing on the Wall, Thema, Thrice Fiction, Timberline, Uno Mas, Wild Violet, Windhover, Wordplay