Kathryn Parker

Kathryn Parker has spent the better part of 14 years turning the art of gift-giving into something closer to a science. Based in Chicago and writing for GiftScores, she covers Holidays & Seasonal Gifts and Birthday & Celebration Gifts with the kind of grounded confidence that only comes from actually doing the work — sourcing, reviewing, and curating gifts for retail clients, event firms, and consumer publications since well before seasonal gift guides became a cottage industry. Her CEP credentials and Ohio State consumer sciences background inform everything she writes, though her most telling qualification might be the personal spreadsheet she's maintained since 2009, now logging over 600 gifted items. Some people give great gifts. Kathryn tracks them.