Ox Devere

Author

Ox Devere is a pseudonym for the writing duo of Parker Jamison and Paul Kimball. It’s an ode to the most famous pen name of all time. 

Parker was born and raised just outside of Boston, MA, the middle of five children. Her father was raised in Egypt, so their house was always filled with artwork, relics, and stories of its ancient culture. As a kid, she lived in the pages of Brian Jacques, Madeleine L’Engle, and Roald Dahl. Her older brothers and cousins introduced her to the world of Indiana Jones and Star Wars, worlds in which imagination and adventure roared.

Though she began college at a small liberal arts place in Vermont, a near-death experience in her freshman year changed the course of her life. She enrolled in film school, graduating with a bachelor’s degree. Production work took her from Boston to Los Angeles, where she partnered with an old classmate, Paul Kimball, and started writing screenplays.

After years of juggling freelance work and struggling with the amount of creative work they wrote that would never see the light of the screen, she decided to return to her storytelling roots. The character of Ridley Samaras was born, and the adventures began.

Today, Parker lives in the Boston area with an excessively smart Border Collie-Lab named Remy. She trains in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, serves with a non-profit foundation in Haiti, and watches soccer fanatically. An avid connoisseur of cookies and cocktails and SIG Sauer firearms, she looks forward to introducing her nieces and nephews to all of them in good time.