Rikki ducornet biography

American poet

Rikki Ducornet (; born Erica DeGre; April 19, )^[1][2] is an American writer, poet, and artist.

Her work has been described as “linguistically explosive and socially relevant,”^[3] and praised for “deploy[ing] tactics familiar to the historical avant-garde, including an emphasis on gnosticism, cosmology, diablerie, bestiary, eroticism, and revolution, to produce an astounding body of work, cogent and ethical in its beauty and spirit.”^[4]

Biography

Rikki Ducornet was born in Canton, New York.

Gerard DeGré, Ducornet's father, was a professor of social philosophy, and her mother Muriel hosted community-interest programs on radio and television.^[5] Ducornet was raised in a multicultural household as her father was Cuban and her mother was Russian-Jewish.^[6] Ducornet's father encouraged her to read books by authors such as Albert Camus and Lao Tzu, and to pursue an exploration of knowledge.