Vicki Hendricks
writer
Vicki Due Hendricks is an American author of crime fiction, erotica, and a variety of short stories.
Background
Hendricks was born in Covington, Kentucky, raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Florida in 1973. She earned a B.S. in English education from Ohio State University in 1973, an M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University in 1979, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Florida International University in 1992. Hendricks' novel Cruel Poetry was a finalist for the Edgar Award in 2008. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. She taught as a Professor of English at Broward College in Hollywood, Florida, from 1981 to 2016.
Hendricks has been praised as the "Queen of Noir" for rejuvenating women's crime/noir in the nineties and both extolled and denounced for her graphic use of sexual elements that distinguish neo-noir from noir of the 1930s through 1950s. Her novels have been reviewed in The New York Times Review of Books, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the American Library Association's Booklist, as well as newspapers, blogs, and review sites.
Bibliography
Novels
Miami Purity (200 pages, hardback, Pantheon Books, 1995, ISBN 0-679-43988-9, paperback; reprint: Busted Flush Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9792709-3-2)
Iguana Love (185 pages, hardback, Serpent's Tail, 1999, ISBN 1-85242-628-4)
Voluntary Madness (215 pages, hardback, Serpent's Tail, 2000, ISBN 1-85242-666-7, paperback, Serpent's Tail, 2002, ISBN 1-85242-751-5)
Sky Blues (230 pages, hardback, St. Martin's Press, 2002, ISBN 0-312-28346-6, paperback, Serpent's Tail, 2002, ISBN 1-85242-805-8)
Cruel Poetry (312 pages, paperback, Serpent's Tail, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85242-927-0)
Fur People (286 pages, paperback, Winona Woods, 2013, ISBN 978-0615921723)
Collections
Florida Gothic Stories (228 pages, paperback, Kitsune Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0981949536)
Dangerous Sex: Three Stories (Kindle, 2011)
Short stories, excerpts, chapters
"Dance of the Manatee." Chapter 10.
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