Parris Afton Bonds

PARRIS is the mother of five sons and the author of nearly fifty published novels.  She is co-founder and first vice president of Romance Writers of America, as well as cofounder of Southwest Writers Workshop.

Declared by ABC’s NIGHTLINE as one of three best-selling authors of romantic fiction, The New York Times best seller Parris Afton Bonds has been featured in major newspapers and magazines and been published in more than a dozen languages.

The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor a published writer who has given outstandingly of time and talent to other writers.  Prestigious recipients of the Parris Award include Tony Hillerman and the Pulitzer nominee Norman Zollinger.

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Parris donates her spare time teaching creative writing to both grade school children and female inmates, whom she considers her captive audiences.