Mike Parker

Born in 1958, Mike Parker has a twin sister. He was educated art Hove County Grammar School for Boys and later Kent University in Canterbury, studying English and Sociology. Mike started out his working life as an Advertising Copywriter during the design boom of the eighties and wrote the Star Signs for in-flight brochures! He retrained as a teacher in the 1990’s and went on to teach 11-16 year olds at a State School.

Through all this he nurtured and developed his love for writing. In 2002 he won the Poetry Now National Poetry Prize and the Raven National Poetry Prize. He had various short stories and poems published in a number of languages.

Break In is Mike Parker’s first children’s book published by Wolfhound Press. He is married with four children.