Jeri Parker

Jeri Parker grew up exploring riverbanks and forest paths where she spent summers with her grandparents at a sawmill near Yellowstone National Park. She returned to Idaho’s Centennial Mountains as a young woman and built a cabin of foraged materials. She continues to spend summers there, writing at an old desk with a view toward the Tetons.

She taught high school and university students for many years, but it was when she met Carlos Louis Salazar, a ten-year-old deaf boy, that she began to understand what language is and what the intricate steps of acquiring it involve.

She has won first-place prizes for her writing from the Utah Arts Council and the Henry’s Fork Foundation in Idaho. Other publications include Uneasy Survivors: Five Women Writers and poems and short stories in literary reviews.

Jeri recently discussed her book A Thousand Voices on NPR with RadioWest interviewer Doug Fabrizio. It can be heard on the RadioWest website.

She is an artist as well as writer. Her paintings are in private and public collections in Paris, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, London, Sydney, and more than half of the states.

She is presently co-owner of Wildflowers Bed and Breakfast. Her own domain is ruled by a spaniel, two cats, and three golden chickens.