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Ron Koertge teaches at Hamline University in their low-residency MFA program for Children's Writing. His new book is Sex World, his first collection of short, short fiction. His recent books of poetry include Fever (Red Hen Press, 2007), Indigo (Red Hen Press, 2009), Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses (Candlewick Press, 2012), and The Ogre's Wife (Red Hen Press, 2013). Koertge also writes fiction for teenagers, including many novels and novels-in-verse: The Brimstone Journals, Stoner & Spaz, Strays, Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs, and Coaltown Jesus. All were honored by the American Library Association, and two received PEN awards. He is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council and has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry. He lives in South Pasadena, California.
In the wildly imaginative flash fictions of Sex World , poet and young adult author extraordinaire, Ron Koertge, moves from humor to poignance, irreverence to tenderness, with a grace and deceptive ease that I hereby dub Koertgeesque (Koertgesian?), and wish I had invented myself. If you want bang for your literary buck, let it stop here. --Charles Harper Webb Sex World is like a box of flashy gourmet chocolates: You can devour them in order or pluck them randomly, each one a deliciously formed morsel that will satisfy your taste for everything from Greek goddesses to robots and the great variety of humanity in between. You'll pay a price of course: after the bountiful bonbons are gone, you won't be satisfied; you'll want more and more and more... --Fengar Gael
