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Glenn Parsons

Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi Lives in: Oxford, MS

Contact Information

  • Email: glennp1776@gmail.com

Address:

    • 467 Highway 7 N.
      Oxford, MS 38655
      United States
  • Phone: (662) 371-5372
  • Preferred Contact Method: Any

 

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About Glenn Parsons

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Children and Young Adults

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Although I grew up in the area around Birmingham, Alabama, (specifically Hueytown) I was always fascinated with the ocean. Some of my earliest memories are of me lying in the water with a dive mask, watching small fish darting around in the surf, searching for shells and starfish, and getting incredibly sunburned at Gulf Shores, Alabama, and Panama City Beach, Florida. Those family vacations at the beach instilled in me a love for the ocean, and after graduating from The University of Alabama, …Read More Birmingham, I decided to pursue a degree in marine biology. I chose the University of South Alabama for my Master’s degree in marine biology and went on to earn my PhD degree in Oceanography at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. I studied sharks around Dauphin Island, Alabama, and also in Tampa Bay and in the Florida Keys. I was a Professor of Biology for 35 years at Ole Miss and am now an Emeritus Professor and now live in Oxford, Mississippi.

Works:

Sharks skates and rays of the Gulf of Mexico (University Press of Mississippi, 2007)
Cherokee Summer (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2007).
Introductory Fish Biology (Cambridge Publishers, 2022)
Night Fishing (Ingram Spark Publishers, 2026)

Awards:

Many awards for my scientific works. None, as yet, for my fiction.

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