W. Parker

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W. Parker

A novelist, screenwriter, and storyteller whose work often centers queer people and outsiders in history, bringing big emotional questions to vivid life. Their books blend literary curiosity with a clear, approachable voice.

1 Audiobook

The Gipsy Fortune Teller Containing: Judgment for the 29 Days of the Moon, the Signification of Moles, and the Art of Telling Fortunes by Dice, Dominoes, &c., &c.

The Gipsy Fortune Teller Containing: Judgment for the 29 Days of the Moon, the Signification of Moles, and the Art of Telling Fortunes by Dice, Dominoes, &c., &c.

by W. Parker

About the author

Based on the author’s official site and other published profiles, W.A.W. Parker is a writer from Montana who studied film and gender at Harvard and is based in Los Angeles. They work across novels, screenwriting, and film, with a focus on stories about people who have often been left out of the spotlight.

Their novel The Wasteland, a story connected to T. S. Eliot, won the American Fiction Award and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in LGBTQ Fiction. Other books include The Divine Proportions of Luca Pacioli and The Judicious Use of Intangibles.

Published profiles also describe Parker as queer, Two-Spirit, and Northern Cheyenne, and their screen work includes The Roof, released on Disney+. Across formats, their work is known for pairing historical subjects with questions of identity, belonging, and change.