Suzi Parker

Suzi Parker is an award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong Southerner based in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her writing often focuses on the intersection of sex, politics, and Southern culture. She is one of the country's premiere experts on the Clintons and their scandals. Her latest book is "Trumping and Drinking: 100 Cocktails For Donald Trump's First 100 Days." "When Donald Trump gives you lemons, you make lemonade -- with alcohol," says Suzi, who was geared up to cover four years of a Hillary Clinton presidency. "Confess it. You know Trump drives you to drink." Her journalism often appears in such diverse publications as The Economist, Penthouse, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Nerve, Town & Country, Salon, and many other national and international publications. Her essays have been published in myriad anthologies. In her spare time, the feisty take-no-prisoners journalist writes naughty erotica and hot romances set in the secret dirty underworld of the Bible-thumping, conservative South. Violet Clementine's journey is the first story in Suzi’s new sensual “Sex in the South” fiction series. She doesn't use a pen name because as her mother always told her: If you're embarrassed by what you write, don't write it in the first place. She is the author of two non-fiction books, "Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt" (coming soon as an ebook) and "1000 Best Bartender's Recipes", and a fictional thriller series, "Echo Ellis: Adventures of a Girl Reporter". Obsessed with music, Suzi is a lifelong Duran Duran fan and a keen lover of 80s punk and new wave. Coffee and sweet tea fuels her writing, and known as Vampire Girl to her friends, she prefers night to day. And of course, Suzi knows a thing or two about cocktails. She attended bartending school, has a mixed a drink or three in her time, and collects vintage cocktail books.