Thad Rutkowski

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Thaddeus Rutkowski (born October 23, 1954) is an Asian-American fiction writer and poet. He is the author of six books, including the novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse. Haywire reached No. 1 on Small Press Distribution's fiction best-seller list. His novels His writing has appeared in numerous journals and magazines including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Fiction and Fiction International, and Free State Review. His novel, Roughhouse (Kaya), was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian Book Awards, and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. He has taught fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA and the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York and works as a regular copy editor for Artforum magazine.

Personal life

Rutkowski was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1954 to B. Richard and Chia-In Rutkowski. He started creative writing when he was a teenager because it was the easiest way to express himself. He was introduced to the writing world through college, but didn't feel like he was a part of that world until publishing his first book, Roughhouse. In February 7, 1999 he married Randi Hoffman. They have one daughter, Shay. He attended Cornell University, where he received his B.F.A in 1976. In 1977, he received his M.A. at Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan.

Published work

Books

• Border Crossings (poems), Sensitive Skin Books, Mill Valley, Calif., 2018.
• Guess and Check (creative nonfiction), Gival Press, Arlington, Va., 2017.

-Won Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction.

-Two stories nominated for Pushcart Prize.

• Violent Outbursts (flash fictions), Spuyten Duyvil Publications, New York, 2015.
• Haywire (novel in flash fictions), Starcherone Books/Dzanc Books, Buffalo, 2011.

-Won Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s members’ choice award.

-Reached No. 1 on Small Press Distribution’s fiction best-seller list, December 2010.

• Tetched: A Novel in Fractals, Behler Publications, Lake Forest, Calif., 2005. Finalist,
• Starcherone fiction contest. Finalist, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s Members’ Choice

-Award. Selected as one of best books reviewed by Chronogram magazine, 2006. Inspired the

short film Tetched (Better Films, Los Angeles).

• Roughhouse (novel), Kaya Press, New York, 1999.

-Finalist, Members’ Choice Asian American Award

Chapbooks

• Child World, Red Glass Books, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2013.
• White and Wong, Musclehead Press/Boneworld Publishing, Russell, N.Y., 2007.
• Basic Training, March Street Press, Greensboro, N.C., 1996.
• Beautiful Youth Talent House Press, Talent, Ore., 1994. Co-winner Talent House chapbook contest.

Short Works: Anthologies

• “On My Head,” Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories, (Woodhall Press, Norwalk, Conn.), 2018.
• “Summer Session,” Offbeat/Quirky, (JEF Books/Depth Charge Publishing, Aurora, Ill.) 2017.
• “Pardon My French,” Paris, Etc. (Serving House, Copenhagen and Florham Park, N.J.), 2016.
• “Bad Matches,” “Between Places,” Shale: Extreme Fiction for Extreme Conditions, (Texture Press, Norman, Okla.), 2015.

• “An Urban Weapon,” Before Passing, Great Weather for Media, New York, 2013.
• “City Visit,” In Like Company, MadHat Press, Boston, 2015.
• “When the Work Runs Out,” The Understanding Between Foxes and Light, Great Weather for Media, New York, 2013.

• “Leaping Buck Icons,” Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo,
• Wavertree Press, Amherst, Va., 2011.
• “What’s in the Name” and “White and Wong,” Painless Poetry, 2nd edition, Barron’s Educational Series, New York, 2011.

• “Ayatollah,” The Unbearables’ Big Book of Sex, Autonomedia, New York, 2011.
• “On My Head,” One on One: The Best Men’s Monologues for the 21st Century
• Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Winona, Minn., 2008.
• “Poetry Offender” and “The Speech of Cretans,” Poetic Voices Without Borders 2 Gival Press, Arlington, Va., 2008.

• “Beautiful Youth,” Up Is Up, but So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, New York University Press, New York, 2006.

Recent Short Fiction: Journals

• “Bad Chemistry,” Westchester Review, Vol. 11, 2019.
• “Iced” 300 Days of Sun, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Nevada State College) 2019.
• “Days of Rain,” K’in Literary Journal, Issue 3, May 2019.
• “The Fear,” Jellyfish Review, February 28, 2019.
• “Darkroom,” Parhelion Literary Magazine, February 2019.
• “Lines and Maps,” Local Knowledge, issue 6, 2018.
• “Island Visit,” Cosmonauts Avenue, August 30, 2018.
• “After the Passing,” Identity Theory, August 8, 2018.
• “Nowhere Boy,” Schuylkill Valley Journal, 2018. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize.
• “Safe Colors,” Newfound: An Inquiry of Place, No. 4, 2018.
• “Biking in the Dark,” Ground Fresh Thursday: One in Four, 2017. Nominated for Best American Short Stories.
• “Air Travel,” Connotation Press, 2017. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
• “On Two Wheels,” The Nassau Review, 2017.
• “Unworldly Incidents,” Little Patuxent Review, Issue 22, Summer 2017.
• “Cat’s Teeth,” Copper Nickel, No. 24, Spring 2017.
• “The Patient as Mobile Device,” Flash Fiction Magazine, June 9, 2016.
• “Feeling the Boot,” People Holding, May 24, 2016. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
• “Kehena Beach,” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Issue 26. December 2014.
• “On the Way Out,” Phoebe, Vol. 44, No. 1, Fall 2014.
• “Sweet Music,” Free State Review, Issue 4, Summer/Fall 2014.
• “Making Progress,” Little Patuxent Review, Issue 16, Summer 2014.
• “Taking Hits,” Sou’wester, Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 2014.
• “Wild Birds,” Faultline, Vol. 23, 2014.
• “Warts and All,” Potomac Review, 2014.
• “Out of Fashion,” Ragazine, 2013. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• “Appointments,” Fiction International, No. 46, 2013.
• “On the Move,” Evergreen Review, Summer 2013.
• “Speaking Into the Microphone,” text and MP3 recording, Bluestem magazine, December 2012.
• Story, “Bad Matches,” selected for performance by LiarsLeagueNYC, KGB Bar, 2012.
• “The World Sits on the Back of a Turtle,” “Tipping the Scales,” Eleven Eleven, No. 13, 2012.
• “The Mountain Man,” The New York Times Opinionator, March 11, 2012.
• “Altered Persona,” Matter Press, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Sept. 9, 2011.
• “Haywire/Motocross,” The Collagist (Dzanc Books), Dec. 14, 2010.
• “Pan Tadeusz,” The Westchester Review, 2010. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
• “Don’t Wanna Be a Bum? Chew Gum,” and “Soul Brother,” Ping-Pong, 2010.
• “Ayatollah,” Fiction International, No. 41, 2008.
• “Night Journeys,” Hawaii Pacific Review, Vol. 22, 2008.
• “Recovery Is for Quitters,” Potomac Review, No. 44, 2008.
• “Vacation Time” and “Hooking Up,” Phantasmagoria, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008.

Nominated for Pushcart Prize.

• Story, “Before the Move,” selected for Writing Aloud, InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia, 2007.

• Contributor to How Did They Do That?, Morrow (New York, NY), and other collections, including Up Is Up but So Is Down: The New York Downtown Literary Scene 1974-1992, New York University Press (New York, NY); The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY); Unbearables,Autonomedia (Williamsburg, NY), The Naughty Brits: Columns from Nerve.com, Crown (New York, NY), and Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, Coffee House (Minneapolis, MN). Contributor to periodicals, including American Letters & Commentary, Crowd, Fiction, Fiction International, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattapallax, Gathering of the Tribes, Spinning Jenny, Phantasmagoria, CutBank, Faultline, Pleiades, MacGuffin, Mudfish, Cafe Review, and Columbia Review.

Awards

• Fiction writing fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts(2012)
• Members' Choice Asian American Literary Award(2013)
• Electronic Literature Bronze, multicultural fiction(2018)

References

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