Jamie Parsley

Born in Fargo, North Dakota and raised near Harwood, North Dakota, Parsley received a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Vermont College at Norwich University. He studied at the School of Theology at Thornloe University in Sudbury, Ontario, St. Joseph’s College, Standish, Maine and received a Master's Degree from Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin. Parsley was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 2004, became the priest-in-charge of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Fargo in 2008. Since 2021, Parsley has served as the poet-in-residence at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. ==Reception==

Parsley’s tenth book, Fargo, 1957, was published in 2010, and chronicled the stories of the victims and survivors of the tornado that struck Fargo, North Dakota on June 20, 1957 A reviewer in the High Plains Reader writes that Parsley's shows a "willingness to present himself and his own obsession honestly—the process of discovering these people and what they have left behind." == Publications ==

• Paper Doves, Falling and Other Poems Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1992 • The Loneliness of Blizzards. Mellen Press; Lewiston, New York. 1995. • Cloud: a poem in 2 acts; Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York 1997 • The Wounded Table Pudding House, Johnstown, Ohio 1999 • earth into earth, water into water. Enso Press, Fargo, North Dakota 2000 • no stars, no moon. Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York 2004 • Ikon, Enso Press, Fargo, North Dakota 2005. • Just Once, Loonfeather Press, Bemidji, Minnesota 2007 • This Grass. Enso Press, Fargo, North Dakota. 2009 • Fargo, 1957. Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. 2010 • Crow. Enso Press, Fargo, North Dakota. 2012 • That Word. North Star Press, St. Cloud, Minnesota. 2014 • The Downstairs Tenant and Other Stories (Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, 2014) • Only Then (Pilgrim Soul Press, Fargo, North Dakota, 2017) • Echo (Benevolent Press, Moorhead, Minnesota, 2023) • Salt (Kelsay Press, American Fork, Utah, 2024) ==References==