Garda Parker started writing in the third grade and never stopped. Thanks to her mother, she got hooked on reading the old Western writers – Zane Grey, Ernest Haycox, and B.M. Bower – thrilled to know B.M. Bower was a woman writing Westerns! She loved Western movies and cowboys, especially Roy Rogers. So when she wrote her first romance novels, she naturally rode into the historical Western sunrise. She still loves Westerns, and likes to believe readers still want them as well – no matter what prevailing thought has been about the sunset of Westerns.

Garda’s written many historical and contemporary novels. In contemporaries she was pleased to be part of Kensington’s To Love Again line of books featuring older women falling in love. Even though the line is long gone, those stories still resonate with Garda and many other women. She’s still writing them.

Garda relocated from Central New York State to the Gulf side of Florida five years ago, having spent a long career at Colgate University, mostly in the exciting University Theater. From life experiences, from life in the theater and given a rich imagination, Garda continues to write. New projects include a Western series, a memoir on farm life, and the release of a book of Civil War letters written with her uncle.