Judith R. Parker makes her home near Ronald, Washington in central Cascades with her husband of forty-plus years, a retired civil engineer. Also two dogs and six cats. She is a retired corporate CFO.

She has been writing mysteries, suspense and westerns as well as short stories for the past twenty-plus years. Her short stories, some under the pen name, J. R. Parker, have appeared in regional and national magazines and an anthology. Her first book, THE HOUSE SITTER, a suspense novel, was published by Zebra Books in 1994. Her anthology, A KIND OF JUSTICE, was a 2002 Eppie finalist and her book, RIDE A COLD WIND, won an Eppie for best western. Two of her books are 2003 Eppie finalists. Two of her books were also BLOODY DAGGER AWARD finalists. Most of her books relate to the west and northwest.

Parker is a member of Sisters-in-Crime, Women Writing the West, Western Writers of America, EPIC, and is a past board member of the Northwest chapter of Mystery Writers of America.