Parker’s poem “First Light” appears in the American Academy of Poets’s Poem-a-Day. About this poem, Parker writes, “the scene is so mundane it’s intimate. What else to write but a love poem?”

The author of five books, Parker’s works include the essay collection You Get What You Pay For, the young adult novel Who Put This Song On? and poetry collections There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Magical Negro, and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her work has been featured in Poem-a-Day three times before.