Ricker Winsor attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, Brown University, where he studied English, and The Rhode Island School of Design where he received BFA and MFA degrees. He has worked as a photojournalist, as a cabinetmaker, as a teacher, and as an exhibiting landscape painter. He performed professionally for thirty years as a Delta blues musician – guitar and vocal. Ricker is an expatriate living in Surabaya, Indonesia with his Chinese Indonesian wife, Jovita and two dogs, Sniper and Nana. He paints, draws in ink and charcoal, and writes. He also plays chess.
Published by Mud Flat Press:
- Pakuwon City – Letters from the East – November 1, 2010, on Amazon
- The Painting of My Life – April 1, 2014, on Amazon
- Tik Tok: Poems – September 10, 2017, on Amazon
- Thinking Out Loud: Essays by Ricker Winsor – July 4, 2018, on Amazon
- Francine – February 12, 2019, on Amazon
- Everything in its Season: Lyme, New Hampshire 1970- 1985 – September 22, 2019, on Amazon
- Poetry – May 8, 2020, on Amazon
- INK: Forty-five years of Ink Drawing – November 16, 2020, on Amazon
- Oil Paint: A Journey – January 1, 2021, on Amazon
- It’s a Spark: Black and White Photography by Ricker Winsor – May 20, 2021, on Amazon
- In the Corner of a Room: Abstract Oil Pastels and Poetry – April 26, 2021, on Amazon
- Ricker Winsor: Drawings 2020-2023 – December 20, 2023, on Amazon
- Drawings 2023-2025 Indonesia – March 16, 2025, on Amazon
Ricker is also included in these anthologies published by Mud Flat Press:
- Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) – June 24, 2022
- Mud Flat Verse (an anthology) – December 18, 2023
“Ricker Winsor is a “force of nature — photographer, cabinetmaker, musician, writer, painter, fisherman, golfer, squasher, indefatigable lover, Catholic mystic and pretty good cook.” – Ken Rower
Ricker’s essays and short fiction have been published at “Reflets du Temps” in France and at Empty Mirror Books which also shows some of his paintings.
Interview with Ricker Winsor by Mud Flat Press
Interview with Ricker Winsor on Paradigm Radio
Visit Ricker Winsor’s blog