Author Biography
Tanya Parker Mills grew up overseas in Greece, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon. She lived through two revolutions in Iraq involving Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party. With a degree in Journalism from Brigham Young University, she has worked for a PBS affiliate and has published numerous newspaper articles. She currently lives in Washington with her husband and their two children. This, her first novel, was a finalist in two categories for the 2008 Whitney Award, won the 2009 Indie Book Award for Multicultural Fiction (while being named a finalist in two other categories), and won the 2010 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Award for Mainstream/Literary Fiction.
