Marie Parks
Speaker
Marie Parks (she/her) is an award-winning LGBTQIA+ fantasy author and founder of Sandia Starforgers writing retreats for speculative <span class="il">fiction</span> writers. She coauthored The Grigori Cycle with Jes Honard, including Unrelenting, which won the New Mexico Book Awards for best LGBTQ book and was a finalist in the categories of <span class="il">Fiction</span>: Sci-Fi/Fantasy and First Book. Marie was a finalist for the Futurescapes Award for Most Promising New Author for her fantasy heist, Flightless. Additionally, she is a New Mexico Writers Annual Grant recipient and was a finalist for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category. Marie lives in New Mexico with her dogs, where she loves to camp, hike, and eat green chile.