Jeffrey Ricker - SF, Fantasy, Contemporary, Usually Queer

[Jeffrey Ricker]

Name: Jeffrey Ricker
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him

My short & boring bio: Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the YA fantasy The Unwanted (2014). His stories and essays have appeared in Foglifter, Phoebe, Little Fiction, The Citron Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and others. A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and recipient of a 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency, he has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Webster University.

What type of stories do you write?
I write mostly science fiction and fantasy, but have also been known to write contemporary fiction from time to time. Whatever it is, it usually has queer themes in it.

What are you working on right now?
I'm revising a near-future climate collapse novel about a farmer and her brother the astronaut who wants her to join him on the first interplanetary colonization mission. I describe it as Places in the Heart meets The Road, but somewhat more hopeful.

My Writer In Motion Project:
Exile

Published Books:
Detours
The Unwanted

Connect With Me:
Website
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