Eliot Parker is the author of the thriller novel A FINAL CALL, which won second place in the annual BookFest Awards for Crime/Legal Fiction Writing in 2022. He is also the author of the short story collection SNAPSHOTS, which won the 2020 PenCraft Literary Award and the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Award for Short Story Anthology. His thriller novel, A Knife's Edge, received the West Virginia Literary Merit Award, and he has been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize (now SIBA) in Thriller Writing in 2017 for his novel FRAGILE BRILLIANCE. He hosts the podcast program, Now Appalachia on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, which profiles authors, editors, and publishers in the Appalachian region. Eliot currently teaches writing at the University of Mississippi.