Wardell Leland Parker was born in Newark, New Jersey, but has lived in the Washington DC metropolitan area since the age of 9. His drawing talent made him a perfect candidate for The Duke Ellington School of the Visual and Performing Arts. His higher education was at Virginia Commonwealth University. An interest in writing came as he and a close friend from high school wrote out scripts and story ideas on the weekends, and they were thrilled when they had an article published in 1983. Leland would say that God was leading him into video production, which in the early 80s was becoming more accessible to consumers. Working with his friend, Mr. Parker produced an independent video where he enlisted Rosi Sandoval, a Nicaraguan-born coworker of his, with whom he fell in love and married in 1992. The two launched their graphic design business, SYZGY Media, that same year. It was while producing corporate videos at his full-time job in the 90s that his love for writing narratives began to surface. With a dozen stories in some stage of completion, Wardell felt that God was leading him to ply his skills toward something more important; Making biblical concepts and truth more accessible to an audience not likely to pick up a bible. Coarse Correction is the second book under that direction.