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Ron  Koertge Ron Koertge

Last updated on: March 11, 2010

Like most real-life teenagers, Ron Koertge's quirky characters struggle with identity, peer pressure, insecurity, relationships with parents, and sexual feelings, usually with a great deal of humor. The American Library Association not only has designated most of his novels as Best Books for Young Adults but has also named The Arizona Kid as one of the 100 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults published between 1966 and 1999. Koertge is also a poet, a college professor, and an instructor in the MFA Writing for Children Program at Vermont College.

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Novels

Where the Kissing Never Stops (1986)

The Arizona Kid (1988)

The Boy in the Moon (1990)

Mariposa Blues (1991)

The Harmony Arms (1992)

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (1994)

Confess-O-Rama (1996)

The Heart of the City (1998)

Stoner & Spaz (2002)

Margaux with an X (2004)

Boy Girl Boy (2005)

Strays (2007)

Novels in Poems

The Brimstone Journals (2001)

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup (2003)

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs (2010)

Novels for Adults

The Bogeyman (1980)

Poetry for Adults

Meat: Cherry’s Market Diary (1973)

The Father Poems (1974)

The Hired Nose (1974)

My Summer Vacation (1975)

Men Under Fire (1976)

Twelve Photographs of Yellowstone (1976)

How to Live on Five Dollars a Day (1976)

Cheap Thrills (1976)

Sex Objects (1979)

The Jockey Poems (1982)

Dairy Cows (1982)

Life on the Edge of the Continent: Selected Poems (1982)

High School Dirty Poems (1991)

Making Love to Roget’s Wife (1997)

Geography of the Forehead (2001)

Fever (2007)

Poems

Boys from Mars (2002)

Short Stories

Duet (1997)

Fresh Meat (1997)

A Robot Doesn’t Have a Curve Ball (1999)

Geeks Bearing Gifts (2001)

Brutal Interlude (2003)

Angel & Aly (2003)

Museum Piece (2004)

Variations on a Theme (2004)

It's Complicated (2005)

Just a Couple of Gilrs Talking Haiku (2006)

Lanky Boys with Cars (2006)

Calle de Muerte (2006)

Twenty Crows (2006)

Such a Pretty Face (2007)

Good Hands (2008)

My Life as a Dog (2009)

Essays for Educators

On Failure as Opportunity (1997)

Reel Wurks (2005)

Plays

Riding the Pine: A Play (2004)

General Awards

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1990)

California Arts Council Grant for poetry (1993)