Carey Parrish

Carey Parrish was born in Dalton, Georgia. He attended Southeast

Whitfield High School, graduating in 1985, before first pursuing a

career in nursing. After traveling quite extensively during his twenties

and early thirties, he began to use the experiences and adventures he

had globetrotting to fuel his ambitions to become a writer. He began

writing professionally in his late thirties, shortly after the death of his

maternal grandmother, an event he credits as "the single most life

changing event in my experience," and he was soon selling articles to

British based reFRESH magazine as well as in American publications

such as Entertainment Weekly, Crime Rant, and various other

magazines, both in print and online.

In 2006, Parrish founded Web Digest Weekly e-magazine. After

being involved in various writers groups online, he was very impressed

with the talents of his many of his peers and he wanted to develop a

forum through which they could reach as many readers as possible.

Web Digest Weekly, which ran until 2010, was an immediate success,

due to his first interview guests being bestselling horror novelist Rick

R. Reed and Susaye Greene of The Supremes. The e-zine is currently

approaching its third year of publication and attracts over 100,000 hits

per month. Other notable guests on the site have included musician

Jim Brickman; bestselling author Barry Eisler; Survivor winners Ethan

Zohn, Jenna Morasca, and Aras Baskauskas; The Amazing Race

winners Alex Boylan, Chip Arndt, and Brennan Swain; astronaut Mike

Mullane; and celebrity biography writer J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Parrish is the author of the books Into The Light: Experimentations In

Poetry & Prose, the short story anthology The Moving Finger Writes,

and the novels Marengo and Big Business. He attributes his success to

"taking all the things that were wrong in my life and replacing them

with things that were right." He presently resides in the mountains of

Northern Georgia.