Wendell Ricketts

Wendell Ricketts is the editor of Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life (2005), and his fiction and poetry have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Blue Mesa Review, modern words , and The Long Story , among others. From 1986 to 1996 he was theater and dance critic for the Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco, California, and his writing about literature, travel, politics, the media, and contemporary...See more

Wendell Ricketts is the editor of Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life (2005), and his fiction and poetry have appeared in such journals and anthologies as Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Blue Mesa Review, modern words , and The Long Story , among others. From 1986 to 1996 he was theater and dance critic for the Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco, California, and his writing about literature, travel, politics, the media, and contemporary social issues have appeared in such publications as Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, Contact Quarterly, The Advocate, Dance Ink, Marriage and Family Review, Out, QW, Spin, Silent No More: Voices of Courage in American Schools , and 30 Days in Italy: True Stories of Escape to the Good Life . He has worked professionally as a translator from Italian since 1998, and his work includes The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg, Trilobites: The Back To The Past Museum Guide, Woman Bites Dog: The Mafia's War on Italian Women Journalists , and excerpts of two recent Italian working-class novels ( World Literature Today , November 2013). See less