Corky Parker grew up in Northern California in the 60's. Her first book, La Finca, won the 2022 Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir, and the 2022 University Presses' Award for Book and Cover Design. For much of Parker's career, she was creative director for a small film and communications team she started in Seattle, writing and designing public awareness and corporate films. In 1996 she started La Finca Caribe, an offbeat, "eco-inn" on Puerto Rico's Vieques Island, which she and her family ran for nearly 25 years. Around that, she worked in Alaska Public radio, owned a small sheep farm on the Olympic Peninsula and a gelato shop in Seattle. Writing, design and artwork have been integrated into all of it. Parker's work has received accolades in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Seattle Times, Outside, Lonely Planet, Gourmet, China's People's Daily, and Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Dia, and has won numerous national and international awards. For more info her website is corkyparker.com