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Wendell Ricketts was
born on Wake Island, an atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and raised
in small towns on O’ahu, Hawai’i.
For some twenty years he has written about politics, education, literature,
the performing and visual arts, lesbian and gay family and legal issues, and
responses to AIDS in the arts and media for such publications as Contact Quarterly, The Advocate, Out, Dance
Ink, Spin, Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, and Silent No More: Voices of Courage in American Schools. He is the
author of Lesbians and Gay Men as
Foster Parents (University of Southern Maine, 1991), and his fiction and
poetry have appeared in Blithe House
Quarterly, James White Review, Mississippi Review, modern words, Harrington
Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, and the anthologies Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and
Power and Bum Rush the Page: A Def
Poetry Jam. For his translation of the plays of Natalia
Ginzburg from Italian, he received the PEN American
Center Renato Poggioli
Prize in 2000. He holds a Master’s degree in creative writing from the
University of New Mexico, where he received the highly specialized training
that enabled him to pursue a rewarding career as an office temp. He can be
reached via his website and
frequently blogs at WendellNoose and VitaVagabonda.
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