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
Recent Announcements
Giftmas 2023 — Winter Light
Every year some of my friends and I organise a fundraiser to help support the Edmonton Food Bank and we use our blogs to try and signal boost it. This is that 🙂 This year our theme is 'Winter Light'. I chose it, in part, because last year our theme was 'Light in the...
Award Eligibility – 2023 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 a little big odd to say, “Here are the things I created last year — do you think they are exceptional?...
2023 Giftmas Fundraiser Sign-Ups
For the past several years my friends and I have been working together to raise money to help benefit the Edmonton Food Bank -- feeding hungry families and helping to shoulder heavy loads during the winter holiday season. Many of us have personal connections to the...
“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.”