Joe Ricker
Author · 1 book
Ricker began his writing career as an undergraduate at the University of Mississippi, where he worked nights as a bartender at City Grocery. In both the bar and on campus, he was mentored by local authors and instructors Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, and Tom Franklin. Esquire magazine referred to him as: “A man of letters who’s gentle in the way that only the toughest of hard-asses can be.” He earned an MFA from Goddard College, and moved on to teach in Ithaca, New York, for nearly a decade. After leaving Ithaca, Ricker spent two years living out of his car and traveling through the western United States with his dog Kamani. He settled in Reno, Nevada, where he currently resides. Ricker has worked as an innkeeper, cab driver, carpenter, ranch-hand, lumberjack, and strip-club bouncer.
