Vicki Hendricks


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.

Novels

  • Miami Purity
  • Iguana Love
  • Voluntary Madness
  • Sky Blues
  • Cruel Poetry
  • ''Fur People''

Collections

  • Florida Gothic Stories
  • ''Dangerous Sex: Three Stories''

Short stories, excerpts, chapters

Non-fiction

  • "Freshwater Diving Delight." Gold Coast Life. May, 1983, 56–57.
  • "Last Call for Lobster." Gold Coast Life. February, 1984, 60–61+
  • "Miami's Metrozoo." Florida's Goldcoast. December, 1984.
  • "Felix Mas." Florida's Goldcoast. March, 1985, 33–35.
  • "Leadership and The One-Minute Manager." Florida's Goldcoast. September 1985, 31–32.
  • "In Search of Buffalo Wings." Boca Raton. Summer, 1987, 132.
  • "The Line of the Sun: Analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofer's Novel." Masterplots II: Women in Literature. Salem Press. 1995, 1309–1313.
  • "Wrestling Hemingway: Imitating Author's Life Brings Novel Inspiration." Miami Herald. July 18, 1999.
  • "Four Dog Nights: Dogsledding in Finland." Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. December 31, 2000.
  • "Dying to Dive." The Observer Sport Monthly. September, 2002.
  • "Out in the Blue: The Adventures of Skydiving and Writing." . # 3, October–November, 2004.
  • "The Ketchup-Lid Skirt." Desire: Women Write About Wanting. Seal Press, 2007.
  • "When in Madagascar." Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing. Ed. Richard Blanco, et al. Beacon Press. 2020, 58–59.

Interviews

Awards