Linda Busby Parker is the author of Seven Laurels, a literary novel that won the James Jones First Novel Award and the Langum Prize for Historical Fiction. She has had short pieces published in Writer's Digest, The Writer, Big Muddy, Provincetown Arts, Oracle, and Confluence. Her book reviews have appeared in The San Diego Union Tribune, The Mobile Press Register, 2nd and Church (a magazine for writers), First Draft, and Alabama Writers Forum. She has served as a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers Conference and as a Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf. She teaches creative writing at the University of South Alabama and serves as a mentor in a non-degree, low-residency writing program at Middle Tennessee State University.