Jeffrey Ricker 
Jeffrey Ricker is the author of “Detours” (2011) and the YA fantasy “The Unwanted” (2014). His stories and essays have appeared in “Foglifter,” “Phoebe,” “Little Fiction,” “The Citron Review,” “The Saturday Evening Post,” and others.
A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and recipient of a 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency, he has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Webster University.