Jewel Parker is a history instructor who chose Alice Monday as a pen name to honor her great-grandmother and to separate her fiction from her academic publications. Overtime, Jewel realized that her pen name was important for another reason—the glory of writing and publishing was not for herself, but for God.
Jewel holds a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a GO Certificate in Biblical Studies and Theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She incorporates both history and theology in her fictional works.
