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Parker White's Biography
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Parker White
Regional Coordinator
Parker White, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in May 2011 with a degree in English and Classics. During his time at UA, Parker served as managing editor and prose editor for the student literary magazine Marr’s Field Journal, a copy editor for the student newspaper The Crimson White, and a radio show host for the college station WVUA, for which he was named Best Specialty Show Host two years in a row. He has also worked as an ESL tutor for the Tuscaloosa County School System, a senior intern for the independent publisher Slash Pine Press, and an acquisitions assistant for the University of Alabama Press. As president of UA’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, Parker founded and edited a new student literary magazine, DewPoint. He studied English literature abroad in Oxford in 2008 and creative writing in California at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in 2010. He was named Outstanding Senior in the English department. Parker plans to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer after his time with Impact.
