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 Quar...