Rhonda Parrish
Author, Editor and Hydra-tamer
I have the attention span of a magpie and am constantly distracted by shiny things.
I’m the editor of many anthologies and author of plenty of books, stories and poems. I live with my husband and our three cats in Edmonton, Alberta, where I can often be found playing Dungeons and Dragons, bingeing crime dramas, doing crafty stuff or cheering on the Oilers.
As for that ‘hydra-taming’ thing? I call my to-do list The Hydra because every time I knock one thing off it two more spring up in its place. If you check out the illustrations spread across this website you may discover a story about how I went from a hydra-slayer to a hydra-tamer 🙂
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Recent Releases
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Quick Writer in Residence Recap
I had the honour and privilege of being the 2025 Edmonton Public Library Writer in Residence last year. It was a crazy rollercoaster--far more challenging emotionally than I had anticipated--but I am very proud of the job I did and feel very lucky to have had the...
Award Eligibility – 2025 Edition
Each year I write and share a list of my work from the previous year that is award eligible. It’s an interesting exercise in pride and also humility. It always feels odd to say, “Here are the things I created last year — do you think they are exceptional? Worthy of...
Advent Ghosts 2025 — Red Green Red
Every year I participate in ‘Advent Ghosts’ which is an event where people tell spooky stories around Christmas time to honour the Victorian tradition of doing so. I enjoy the challenge of writing something dark or haunting with the season in mind, as well as reading...
“Rhonda Parrish is a shapeshifter with talents to match her every incarnation- magpie tenacity for picking the shiniest submissions, nightingale notes for crafting tales, and bright, feline eyes for seeking out her photographic subjects. She balances on the knife-edge of darkness and light, a sorceress of both realms.”




