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Roberta Parry has published several short stories, two play monologues, two excerpts from her novel Killing Time, and Femme Tales, a satiric re-vision of seven of the more sexist eighteenth-century Grimm Brothers' tales from the experience and perspective of a twentieth-century woman. She has completed three additional novels. One of her short stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of her four plays have won awards and received full production. Her novel Killing Time placed second for fiction for adult readers in the New Mexico Press Women's 2017 Communications Contest. Killing Time was also a finalist for adult fiction in the New-Mexico-Arizona Book Awards 2017. It was the winner for cover design in the same competition. The wrap-around cover illustration was done by the author, as well as the cover and illustrations for Femme Tales.
Roberta graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arizona in Education, and also studied at the University of California at Berkeley, San Jose State University, and Stanford University. She attended Columbia University’s Creative Writing Program under J. R. (Dick) Humphreys and did additional study with Walter James Miller of New York University. Her writing has been greatly influenced by that of William Gaddis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Cormac McCarthy.
Ms. Parry has taught elementary students, college undergraduates, and in-service teachers; written curriculum materials; been a freelance editor; and managed the offices of a pedodontist and an orthodontist. She now lives and works in Santa Fe, NM, where her watercolor paintings are shown in galleries and public exhibit spaces in New Mexico and neighboring states. Her painting "Fallen But Not Bowed" was selected for the juried exhibit Watercolor USA 2016.