DAVID M. PARSONS holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He was the recipient of a National Endowment of the Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State University of New York (Geneseo) and the French/American Legation Poetry Prize. He is founder of the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council's Writers in Performance Series and has served on the Conroe Commission on Arts and Culture for the past six years, two years as chairman. Parsons has three grown children and lives in Conroe, Texas, with extended family members and his daughter Allison and wife, Nancy, an award-winning fine artist and graphic designer.