Jason (J.R.) Parks, PhD, is the author of the all-ages fantasy series Rella PenSword and The Red Notebooks and the middle grade novel Ari's Poetics, a mystery that also teaches young readers about poetry. Along with writing fiction, Jason spends his time teaching English at a liberal arts university in the Midwest (USA) and going on adventures (real life and imaginary ones) with his wife, author Kendra Parks, and their four creative, energetic, inquisitive children. He has published multiple non-fiction, peer-reviewed essays on teaching, multilingual literature, and early 20th century American and British literary magazines.
