Ricky Tucker is a writer, educator, and culture critic based in NYC. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments. His essays and interviews have been published in the Paris Review, the Tenth Magazine, Lithub, and Public Seminar among others, and his musings on art and culture are featured in Vogue, ID*, All of It w/ Alison Stewart, TIME, and Vintage Annals Archive Outsider Podcast, on which he is a recurring guest-host. Tucker’s award-winning copy and marketing campaigns for organizations like 400 Years of Inequality, University of Orange, FarmAID, The New School, and the Farm-to-School Network, span media and real estate, including billboards, digital buys, publications like the New Yorker and USA Today, and NYC MTA takeovers. He has performed for reading series including the Moth Grand SLAM, Sister Spit, Born: Free, and Spark London. Tucker currently teaches creative writing at Eugene Lang College, and Design Writing, and various Queer-centered curricula at Pratt Institute, and is contributing Editor for The Ballroom Freedom School, a column published through ArtsEverywhere in Toronto. His L.A. Times best-selling debut, And the Category Is…Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community was one of Pitchfork’s 15 Best Music Books of 2022, and a finalist for the 2023 LAMBDA Literary Award in Gay Nonfiction. It is available online and in stores. 

Tucker is currently working on the Bloomsbury’s 331/3 book on Mary J. Blige’s What’s the 411, and the essay collection, But They Did That On Television: Queer Dispatches from the Late 20th Century, with Beacon Press—both slated for 2027.