Hendricks was born in Covington, Kentucky, raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Florida in 1973. She earned a B.S. in English Education from Ohio State University in 1973, an M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University in 1979, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University in 1992. Hendricks' novel Cruel Poetry was a finalist for the Edgar Award in 2008. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, French, Finnish, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. As a Professor of English, she has taught at Broward College in Hollywood, Florida since 1981. Hendricks has been praised as the "Queen of Noir" for rejuvenating women's crime/noir in the nineties and both extolled and denounced for her graphic use of sexual elements that distinguish neo-noir from noir of the 1930s through 1950s. Her novels have been reviewed in The New York TimesReview of Books, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the American Library Association's Booklist, as well as newspapers, blogs, and review sites.
Novels
Miami Purity
Iguana Love
Voluntary Madness
Sky Blues
Cruel Poetry
Fur People
Collection
Florida Gothic Stories
Short stories, excerpts, chapters
"Dance of the Manatee." Chapter 10. Naked Came the Manatee. Ed. Tom Shroder. Putnam, 1997.
Excerpt from Iguana Love. Zing. Ed. Brian Antoni. July, 1997.
"West End." Murder for Revenge. Ed. Otto Penzler. Delacorte, 1998.
"Penile Infraction." Dick for a Day. Ed. Fiona Giles. Villard, 1997; Having a Wonderful Time. Ed. John Dufresne. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
"The Perfect Couple." Miami Metro, 1998.
"ReBecca." Nerve.com. Ed. Genevieve Fields 1998; Best American Erotica 2000. Ed. Susie Bright. Scribner's; Vox and Voice, UK, 1999; Sweet and Vicious CD. Read by Parker Posey. Nerve Studios Productions, 1999.
"Tender Fruit." The Mammoth Book of Erotica. Ed.Maxim Jacubowski. Thunder's Mouth. UK, 2000.
Excerpt from Miami Purity. Le Livre du Plaisir. Ed. Catherine Breche. France, Jan, 2000.
"Gators." Mississippi Review. Noir Issue. Ed. Anthony Neil Smith, 2000; Flesh and Blood. Ed. Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb. Warner Books, 2001; Mississippi Review: "Best of" Issue. Ed. Frederick Barthelme. Vol 9, #4. Fall, 2003.
"Alligatoren." German trans. Die 7 Todsünden, Heyne Verlag, Germany, 2002.
"Must Bite." Dying for It: Tales of Sex and Death. Ed. Mitzi Szereto. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006; Susie Bright's Erotic Treasury, 2008.
"Purrz, Baby." Mississippi Review: High Pulp. Ed. Anthony Neil Smith. 2005; Deadly Housewives. Ed. Christine Matthews. Harper Collins, 2006.
"Boozanne, Lemme Be." Miami Noir. Ed. Les Standiford. Akashic Press, 2006; Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience. Eds. Stacy Bierlein, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza and Kat Meads. OV Press, 2011.
"West End." Finnish trans. Isku Jannityskertomuksia, No 4, 2006.
"Chapter Eleven." American Casanova : The New Adventures of the Legendary Lover. Ed. Maxim Jacubowski. Thunder's Mouth, 2006.
"The Big O." A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir. Ed. Megan Abbott. Busted Flush Press, 2007.
