Ann Parker earned degrees in Physics and English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley before taking up a career as a science writer. These days, she slings science and technical verbiage for a living during the day and writes fiction at night.
Ann’s ancestors include a great-grandfather who was a blacksmith in Leadville, a grandmother who worked at the bindery of Leadville’s Herald Democrat newspaper, a grandfather who was a Colorado School of Mines professor, and another grandfather who worked as a gandy dancer on the Colorado railroads.
Ann is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, Historical Novel Society, Women Writing the West, and Western Writers of America. Ann and her family reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, whence they have weathered numerous boom-and-bust cycles.
Her award-winning Silver Rush historical mystery series, is published by Poisoned Pen Press (an imprint of Sourcebooks). It is set in the early 1880s, primarily in the silver boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, and in the “Golden City” of San Francisco, California, and features Inez Stannert—a woman with a mysterious past, a complicated present, and an uncertain future. The series was picked as a “Booksellers Favorite” by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Ann is also an inaugural inductee into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame.
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