Richard Parks

Billy Richard Parks (born June 15, 1955) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. He writes under the names Richard Parks and W. J. Everett, aside from a few early works written as by B. Richard Parks and Rick Parks.

Biography Parks is a native of Mississippi; he was born in Newton. More recently he resided in Ridgeland, Mississippi. He now lives in central New York with his wife and cats.

Works Parks "started writing seriously about 1976,"

Charles de Lint of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction praised Parks' "remarkable storytelling" in a voice that is, "sometimes lyrical, sometimes hard-edged; sometimes in a voice that sounds as ancient as the first stories told around our early ancestors' campfires; sometimes in a voice so new that we have yet to hear it."

Recognition Parks's story "The Ogre's Wife" won the SF Age Reader's Poll for short story in 1995. and his novella The Heavenly Fox (2011) was nominated for the 2012 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.