Richard John Parfitt
Richard John Parfitt is a writer and musician. His first novel of fiction, Stray Dogs (Third Man Books 2023), was a Wales Book of the Year finalist. Born and living in South Wales, he spent two years as a teenager in Toronto, Canada. In the mid 1990s he was founding member of rock group 60ft Dolls, scoring a top 40 album and a number of hits. The group played with well-known bands like Oasis, Dinosaur Jr, and the Sex Pistols. As a songwriter and musician, he has worked for many high-profile artists including Dido, Duffy and McAlmont & Butler. As a writer, he was shortlisted for the New Welsh Review Rheidol Prize. He has also had work published in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, The Conversation, and Wales Arts Review, The Portland Review and Red Pepper.
