Author, Unrepentant Storyteller, "Relative Anomaly." Not the agent nor the fomer rugby star.


Richard Parks published his first story in Amazing in 1981. He has published over fifty more in the years since. His three print collections to date are The Ogre’s Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups (2002), Worshipping Small Gods (2007), and On the Banks of the River of Heaven, in 2010. Other books by Parks include the novella Hereafter and After (2007), The Heavenly Fox (2011), and a novel, The Long Look (2008). His fourth collection, Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter, was published in January by Prime Books. He's been a finalist for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.

Richard Parks lives in Mississippi with his wife and a varying number of cats.