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Robyn Parnell is an American author of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama . She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Oregon Writers Colony. Her books have been reviewed by Kirkus Review and Publishers Weekly.

Biography
A lifelong reader and writer, Parnell first seriously considered writing as a career during her senior year at Santa Ana High School, when she was asked by the editor of her school's newspaper to write a regular op-ed feature. Her opinion column ("Parnal Knowledge") won an award for Best Opinion Feature (High School Journalism Day, Orange County, CA, 1975).

From the bio notes of her book of short fiction, This Here and Now: "Robyn Parnell was born and raised in Santa Ana, California.  She graduated from the University of California at Davis with an oxymoronic degree in Criminal Justice and then somehow, inexplicably, forgot to go to law school.  At various times in her working life she has served hamburgers at Disneyland, registered agricultural periodicals for a university library, edited classified ads for CPAs, installed computer systems in radio stations, counseled families in an OB/GYN medical practice and in women's health clinics...anything to avoid The Call to write fiction.

The Call, however, would not be denied, and so Parnell "retired" from her career as a Reproductive Health Educator (no one was listening, anyway) in order to devote fulltime to writing. She has published books, short stories, essays, books, poems, and a theatrical play. Her one foray into songwriting -- a Country & Western-flavored ballad titled "If You Can't Live Without Me Then Why Aren't You Dead?" -- remains, mercifully, unpublished and unrecorded.

"When not working on innumerable fiction projects Parnell rehearses her NEA grant refusal speech and considers obtaining whatever professional help may be necessary to enable her to compose a more ostentatious and self-aggrandizing Author's Biography. Parnell lives near Portland, Oregon."

Books

 * The Mighty Quinn (Scarletta Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-938063-10-7 ISBN 978-1-938063-10-4 ISBN 978-1-938063-11-4 ISBN 978-1-938063-11-2
 * My Closet Threw A Party (Sterling Publishing, 2005) ISBN 1402712987 ISBN 978-1402712982
 * This Here and Now (Scrivenery Press, 2001) ISBN 1-893818-09-8

Short fiction and novel excerpts

 * "Requiem," Voices From the Porch anthology, Main Street Rag Publishing, 2014
 * "Maddie is Dead," Joy Interrupted: An Anthology on Motherhood and Loss, 2013
 * "The Book of Joel," Thrice Fiction, #6, December 2012
 * "The Aunt," novel excerpt, Stoneslide Corrective, October 2012
 * "When It Is What It Is," Conversations Across Borders, Summer 2012
 * "Googie," THEMA, v. 24 #3 Autumn 2012
 * "Emma Told Stories,"	Penduline, Issue 4, March 2012
 * "Here is What," Bellevue Literary Review, 10th Anniversary Issue, v. 11 No. 2, Fall 2011
 * "Writer’s Guidelines," The First Line, v. 13 Issue 2, Summer 2011
 * "Modus Operandi," Wild Violet, "Passion" issue, Vol. X # 1, Fall 2011
 * "Maggie's Rain," Talking River Review, Issue 28, Spring 2010
 * "Another Word for Hope," Santa Fe Writers Project, 2009
 * "Nathan Keeps Track," r.kv.r.y., Winter 2008
 * "Maddie is Dead," The Externalist, October 2007
 * "Both of Which," Panamowa, Summer 2007
 * "Coeur D' Evelyn," Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories From the Left hand of God, anthology, Hourglass Books, 2007
 * "Ciela Looks Up," novel excerpt, In Our Own Voices, anthology, Oregon Writers Colony, 2007
 * "Epiphany," Spring Hill Review, vol. V #8, 2005
 * "Turning to Showers," The Seattle Review, v. XXVI #2, 2004
 * "Mutual Friends," Spring Hill Review, v. III #2, 2003
 * "So Much Not Neither," Lynx Eye, v. VIII #3, 2000
 * "No Wonder," American Jones Building & Maintenance #8, 2000
 * "Sound No Trumpet," Windhover, v. IV, 2000
 * "One Day She'll Love Dichondra," Ancient Paths, 2000
 * "Cashier Wanted," American Jones Building & Maintenance, #5, 1999
 * "The Burghers of Troutdale," Lynx Eye, v. VI #1, 1999
 * "One and One," ProCreation, v. 2 #2 1999
 * "Hope," Roswell Literary Review, v. II #4, 1998
 * "Poetry in Motion," Missing Spoke Anthology, 1998
 * "Edification," The Butterfly Chronicles, v. II #2, 1998


 * "A Tie in the Road," ProCreation, v. 1 #3, 1998
 * "One Day She'll Love Dichondra," Affair of the Mind, v. 1 #2, 1998
 * "People Like You," Lynx Eye, v. 4 #1, 1997
 * "Tinkerbell Has Varicose Veins," Mobius, v. 8 #1, 1997
 * "Nature or Nurture," Cafe Eighties, v. 4 #3, 1996
 * "Sister Dentia and the Reading List," pica, 1996
 * "Why I Hate Disposable Diapers," Wordplay, v. 2 #2, 1996
 * "Clinic," Happy, #5, 1996
 * "Our Bodies, Your Bodies..." Satire, v. 3 #1, 1996
 * "Nine Out of Ten," Stoneflower Literary Journal. v. 1, 1996
 * "Landscape," Pangolin Papers, v. 2 #3, 1996
 * "Leave It Up," Uno Mas, #11, 1996
 * "Her Face Froze," Flummery Press, 1995
 * "A Middle Piece," Dream International Quarterly, #24, 1995
 * "Rescheduled," Strictly Fiction II, 1995
 * "How Heavy is Blood," Timberline, 1994
 * "Her Face Froze," Rant, #3, 1994
 * "Waiting," The Writing on the Wall, v. 2 #2, 1994
 * "Where Things Are," Burning Light, v. 2 #1, 1994
 * "The Docent," Northwest Literary Forum, 1994
 * "A Middle Piece," Innisfree, v. 7 #6, 1993
 * "Cashier Wanted," Schmaga, v. 4 #2, 1993
 * "Jure Divino," Friction, v. 4 #4, 1993
 * "We'll Talk Later," Oasis, v. 1 #4, 1993
 * "Just What It Is," Belletrist Review, v. 1 #2, 1993
 * "Vigilantes!" Midnight Zoo, v. 2 #4, 1992
 * "No Experience Necessary," Sunriver Sun, 1992
 * "1977 Was Just a Dream," Feminist Baseball, 1992
 * "It's Almost Nobody's Fault," Lines in the Sand, 1992
 * "Mutual Friends," Exhibition, v. 7 #1, 1991
 * "Kiss Me I'm Irish," Bellowing Ark, 1989
 * "The Anti-Cancer Diet," Ellipsis, 1988

Essay, satire, non-fiction and adult poetry

 * "You Can Be - or already are - an Award-Winning Writer!", Dislocate, June 11, 2010
 * "Grandmas Gone God-Wild," Humanist Network News, Nov. 2008
 * "Author Author!" The Bear Deluxe, #23, 2006
 * "The Risky Business of Fiction," Mslexia, 2004
 * "And I Quote," "Then Again," "Unfinished," Gen X National Journal, 2004
 * "Please Do Go On," "The Fourth Thing," Gen X Nat'l Journal, 2003
 * "What's in a Name," The Philosophical Mother, 2003; The Writer's Lounge, 2002; The Raintown Review, v. 1 #2, 1998; Feminist Parenting, 1994; Arterial, Fall 1992
 * "Our Bodies, Your Bodies," Satire, 1996

Children's poetry

 * "Cobwebs in My Earlobes," Stories for Children Magazine, June 2009
 * "Yummers," Stories For Children Magazine, March 2009
 * "Auntie Ru," KidTime magazine, July 2005
 * "Me, Too," KidTime magazine, July 2005
 * "Why," ChickaDee, September 1998
 * "Anna Mae Grady The Foxy Church Lady," Anthology Magazine, May 1998
 * "Wild Kingdom," Atom magazine, March/April 1998
 * "Kitchen Ambition," New Classics Storybook, anthology, Cherubic Press, 1996

Play

 * "Supplicants," one act drama, Eldridge Publishing, 1999

Anthology

 * "Maddie is Dead," Joy Interrupted: An Anthology on Motherhood and Loss, 2013
 * "Coeur D' Evelyn," Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories From the Left Hand of God, anthology, Hourglass Books, 2007
 * "Ciela Looks Up," Oregon Writers Colony, In Our Own Words, anthology, 2006
 * "Kitchen Ambition," New Classics Storybook, anthology, Cherubic Press, 1996
 * "Rescheduled," Strictly Fiction II, anthology, Winter/Spring 1995
 * "What's in a Name," Feminist Parenting, The Crossing Press, 1994