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Thad Rutkowski

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Thaddeus Rutkowski (born October 23, 1954) is an Asian-American fiction writer and poet.[1] He is the author of six books[2], including the novels Haywire, Tetched and Roughhouse. Haywire reached No. 1 on Small Press Distribution's fiction best-seller list.[1] 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[1], and Free State Review.[3] His novel, Roughhouse (Kaya), was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian Book Awards,[4] and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction.[2] He has taught fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA and the Asian American Writers' Workshop in New York [5] and works as a regular copy editor for Artforum magazine.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Rutkowski was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1954 to B. Richard and Chia-In Rutkowski.[7] He started creative writing when he was a teenager because it was the easiest way to express himself.[8] 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.[8] In February 7, 1999 he married Randi Hoffman.[9] They have one daughter, Shay.[10] He attended Cornell University, where he received his B.F.A in 1976.[7] In 1977, he received his M.A. at Johns Hopkins University.[7] He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Manhattan.[7]

Published work[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Border Crossings (poems), Sensitive Skin Books, Mill Valley, Calif., 2018.
  • Guess and Check (creative nonfiction), Gival Press, Arlington, Va., 2017.[6]

-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.[11]

-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).[9]

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

-Finalist, Members’ Choice Asian American Award

Chapbooks[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • “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[edit]

  • “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.[9]

Awards[edit]

  • Fiction writing fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts(2012)
  • Members' Choice Asian American Literary Award(2013)
  • Electronic Literature Bronze, multicultural fiction(2018)[12]

Reviews[edit]


References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Thaddeus Rutkowski". Kaya Press. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "What, Why, How: Thaddeus Rutkowski". Linda K Sienkiewicz. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  3. anniebellequattlebaum (2018-05-01). "Sweet Music". Free State Review. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  4. "Haywire, with Thaddeus Rutkowski". Asia Society. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
  5. "READING BETWEEN A and B: Thaddeus Rutkowski". www.readab.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Author Thaddeus Rutkowski on Writing "Guess And Check" — AMFM Magazine". Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Rutkowski, Thaddeus 1954- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Introducing Our 2016 Guest Prose Editor: An Interview with Thaddeus Rutkowski". great weather for MEDIA. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Rutkowski, Thaddeus 1954- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  10. "Rutkowski, Thaddeus 1954- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  11. "Review of Haywire, a flash fiction novel, by Thaddeus Rutkowski". Poetry | United States | The Broadkill Review. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  12. "AWP: Directory of Members". www.awpwriter.org. Retrieved 2019-11-15.


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