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.