Department of English 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CPR107 Tampa, FL 33620

(315) 591-4707 isukrung@usf.edu www.sukrungruang.com

Ira Sukrungruang

Education

The Ohio State University, English—Creative Writing, MFA 2002

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, English—Creative Writing and General Education, BA 1998

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, University of South Florida, June 2011-present

International Faculty, City University Hong Kong, December 2012-present

Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, August, 2008-June 2011

Assistant Professor, SUNY Oswego, August 2002-June 2008

Publications

Books Authored

The Melting Season & other stories, Burlesque Press (Knoxville, TN) forthcoming

Southside Buddhist: Essays, University of Tampa Press, September 2014

In Thailand It Is Night, University of Tampa Press (Tampa, FL) March 2013

Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO) February 2010

Books Edited

Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 2005

What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York) August 2003; reprinted by Bloomsbury UK (London) November 2004

Creative Nonfiction

“Eat,” Colorado Review, forthcoming

“The Animatronic Dog,” Under the Gum Tree, forthcoming

“On Being Alone,” Literature and Belief, forthcoming

“The First Transgression,” Midwestern Gothic (Lansing, MI) Issue 19, Fall 2015

“On Wanting,” The McNeese Review (Lake Charles, LA) April 2015

“Consequence” and “On Violence,” Becoming: What Makes a Man, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE) April 2015

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“On Laughing,” MindBodyGreen.com http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16458/what-buddha-got-wrong-about-happiness.html, December 30, 2014

“A Meditation on Pain,” River Teeth (Ashland, OH) vol. 16, no. 1, Fall 2014

“A Conversation About Desire,” Blackbird (Richmond, VA) Vol. 13, Issue 2, Fall 2014

“Meditation on Monsters,” Zone 3 (Clarksville, TN) Fall 2014

“Summer Days, 1983,” Prime Number, Issue 43.5, Winter 2013

“Temple Dogs,” Pithead Chapel, vol. 2, Issue 12, Winter 2013

“The Cruelty We Delivered: An Apology,” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Issue 44, Fall 2013; “What If?” Issue 24, Summer 2007; “Chop Suey,” Fall 2005

“Atlas, Let Me Down,” Southeast Review (Tallahassee, FL) Vol. 31.2, Fall 2013

“A Dog’s Life: A Collaborative Essay” co-authored with Katherine Riegel, Tigertail, Volume X, 2013

“On Vanity,” Sandhill Review (Saint Leo, FL) vol. 14, 2013

“Body Replies,” July 2013; “Playing with Buddha,” September 2012; “Please Don’t Talk About It,” Shambhala Sun (Boulder, CO) November 2010

“Southside Buddhist,” The Normal School (New York, NY) vol. 6, Issue 1, 2013

“Between Countries,” Tampa Review Online (Tampa, FL) Issue 6, April 2013

“On Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Self-Portraits, or Two FAT Men Meet and Bump Bellies, or Shut up! I’m Eating,” Trenton Doyle Hancock Catalogue, Contemporary Art Museum (Tampa, FL) November 2012

“To Kill a Thought: A Confession,” The Pinch (Memphis, TN) vol. 32, no. 2, Fall 2012; “Tots-R-Us,” vol. 26, no. 2, Fall 2006

“My Heart, Open,” Kartika Review (San Francisco, CA) Issue 12, Spring 2012

“Bird Dreaming,” Tigertail (Miami, FL) vol. IX, 2011

“The In-between Time,” Make (Chicago, IL) Issue 11, Winter 2011

“Wild Boys. Chicago Boys. Dumb Boys,” The Florida Review (Orlando, FL) vol. 36, 2011

“Abridged Immigrant Narrative,” Juked (Tallahassee) Spring/Summer 2011

“The Wide Open Mouth,” Superstition Review (Tempe, AZ) Issue 6, Fall 2010

“Noisy Neighbor,” Crab Orchard Review (Carbondale, IL) Summer/Fall 2010

“The Usual Spots,” Indiana Review (Bloomington, IN) vol. 31, no. 2, Winter 2009

“Spinning,” Water-Stone (Hamline, MN) vol. 12, 2009

“Mama’s Boy,” Opium Magazine (Online Issue) http://www.opiummagazine.com/Index.aspx?storyid=2700, August 5, 2009

“Constellations,” Cold Mountain Review (Boone, NC) vol. 37, no. 2, Spring 2009

“Our Next Lives,” Briar Cliff Review (Sioux City, Iowa) vol. 21, 2009

“For the Novice Bird Watcher,” Third Coast (Kalamazoo, MI) Spring 2009

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Fat,” Bellingham Review (Bellingham, WA) vol. XXXI, Issue 60

“The Take Over: A Love Story,” Nightsun (Frostburg, MD) vol.26, Fall 2007

“Into the Country,” Isotope (Logan, UT) Issue 5.2, Fall/Winter 2007

“Under the Hand of Buddha,” Arts & Letters (Milledgeville, GA) Issue 17, Spring 2007

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“A World of Adjusters,” River Styx (St. Louis, MO) no. 73, Winter 2006

“On Becoming a Monk,” Hunger Mountain Review (Montpelier, VT) no. 9, Fall 2006

“Spotlighting.” Post Road (New York, NY) no. 12, 2006

“Floating Family,” “Ink,” and “Star Wars for Dinner,” Sou’wester (Edwardsville, IL) Fall 2003

“A Normal Thai Son,” The Asian Pacific American Journal (New York, NY) vol. 11, no. 2

“Lotus,” Land-Grant College Review http://www.land-grantcollegereview.com Fall 2003

“A Normal Thai Son,” The Asian Pacific American Journal (New York, NY) vol. 11, no. 2, 2003

“A Fat Man Thinks About Death,” Hayden’s Ferry Review (Tempe, AZ) Fall-Winter 2002

“My Father’s Swing,” River Styx (St. Louis, MO), Winter 2003

“Tight Fits,” Gulf Coast (Houston, TX) Winter/Spring 2003

“A Fat Man,” Del Sol Review http://webdelsol.com/f-epicks.htm Fall 2002

“Under the Hand of Buddha.” The Indiana Review (Bloomington, IN) Spring 2002

“Santa in Thailand,” Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Lansing, MI) Fall-Winter 2000

“Generations of Laundry,” Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing. Ed. Shirley Lim and Cheng Lok Chua. Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 2000

“I Could’ve Been Tiger Woods,” Another Chicago Magazine (Chicago, IL) Summer 2000

“The Gift,” Crab Orchard Review (Carbondale, IL) Spring-Summer 1998

Poetry

“Refugee,” Stoneboat Literary Journal (Sheboygan, WI) forthcoming

“Let the Light Shed Dark and the Dark Be Still,” The Ilanot Review (Ramat-Gan, Israel) Summer 2015

“Autumn in Florida Is Strange and Sad When I Have Lost” and “Rescue Me,” Burrow Press Review, (Orlando, FL) April 4, 2014

“The Physics of Lamentation” and “Someone Told Me We All Die’,” December, (St. Louis, MO), Spring/Summer 2014, 25.1

“The Call at Night When I Was Dreaming of Figs,” Booth: A Journal (Indianapolis, IN) March 21, 2014

“Origami Bar Napkin,” The Fourth River (Pittsburgh, PA) Issue 11, August 2014

“On Yearning,” Lightning Key Review (St. Leo, FL) Issue 1.1, July 2014

“Letter to Capel in Boise,” Sandhill Review (Saint Leo, FL) vol. 14, 2013

“Sunday Night,” Sliver of Stone (Miami, FL) Issue 6, April 2013

“Out the Mouth of Toads,” Bellingham Review (Bellingham, WA) vol. XXXVI, Issue 66, Spring 2013

“The Green We Speak” and “Florida: A Love Poem,” vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter 2013; “Perigee Moon, March 19, 2011,” Burntdistrict Review (Chicago, IL) Issue 1, Spring 2012

“Because the World Is Cluttered” and “Please, Stop, Please,” Buddhist Poetry Review, Issue 7, Winter 2012

“A Blizzard That Brings More Than Snow,” Lunch Ticket (Los Angeles, CA) December 2012

“During a Nap I Meet Richard Hugo” and “Letter to Mazzeo Who Has Lost His Mojo (Which Was All In His Curls),” North American Review, Issue 297/2, Spring 2012; “In Barcelona,” North American Review (Cedar Fall, IA) January/February 2005; “If It Were Only That Simple,” November/December 2002

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“Dexatrim: An Autobiography,” Prime Number, 19.2 http://www.primenumbermagazine.com/Issue19_PrimeDecimals2.html#anchor_519

“Crossing the River Kwai,” Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine http://www.asiancha.com/issue/9/irasukrungruang, November 2009, Issue 9

“We Leave the Beaches for the Tourists,” Autumn Sky Poetry http://www.autumnskypoetry.com/number15/Ira_Sukrungruang.html, Number 15

“My Father’s Life in Six Stanzas,” Naugatuck River Review (Westerfield, MA) Issue 2, Summer 2009

“How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future,” Georgetown Review (Georgetown, KY) Vol. 10, Issue 1, Spring 2009

“Naked,” Flint Hills Review (Emporia, KS) Issue Twelve, 2007

“Eclipse, May 1984,” and “Fortune,” Blood Lotus, http://www.bloodlotus.org/IraSukrungruang.htm, Issue 6, September 2007

“Third World Dogs,” Slant (Conway, AK) vol. XXI, Summer 2007

“On the Night the White Kids,” “An Attempt to Explain Reincarnation,” “To My Wife Who Is Learning Thai from a Computer,” and “The Country I Never Had,” Mipoesia, http://www.mipoesias.com, January-February 2007

“A Fat Sestina,” Many Mountains Moving (Boulder, CO) vol. VII, no. 1, 2006

“A Different Coast,” Gulf Stream (Miami, FL) vol. 25, 2006

“Languages,” Iron Horse Literary Journal (Lubbock, TX), vol. 6, no.2, Spring 2005

“Aunty Sue Cooks Pan-Asian and the American Dream,” The Asian Pacific American Journal (New York, NY) vol. 12, number 1, Winter 2005

“Karma.” River Styx (St. Louis, MO) no.69/70, Spring 2005; “Mile Markers.” no. 65, Fall 2003; “When in Rome.” no. 63/64, Summer 2003

“Famous Last Words,” The Sun (Chapel Hill, NC), Issue 349, January 2005

“In Thailand it is Night,” Ninth Letter (Champaign, IL) Issue 2, Fall 2004

“The Boy Scout” and “Float,” Tattoo Highway (Hayward, CA) www.tattoohighway.org, Issue 8, Winter 2004

“The Great Buddha on the Mountain,” Hanging Loose (Brooklyn, NY) no. 90; “Like or As If,” no. 85; “The Fork and the Spoon,” no. 80

“After the First Snow” and “In Chicago’s Chinatown,” Witness (Farmington Hills, MI) Fall 2003; “When Peacocks Scream.” Fall 2001

“Ill Man Bowling Alley,” Salt Hill (Syracuse, NY) no. 14, Summer 2003

Fiction

“Fence,” The Mailer Review, (Tampa, FL) forthcoming

“Mr. Feathers,” Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, January 1, 2014

“Tell Us What You Want,” Fiction Fix, Issue 13, Winter 2013

“Pick a Path Adventures,” em: A Review of Text and Image, Issue 2, Fall 2013

“The Soup,” 15 Views of Tampa Bay, Burrow Press, (Orlando, FL) 2013

“Threatlessness,” Conclave (Chicago, IL) Spring 2012, Volume 3, Spring 2012

“Tip,” South Dakota Review (Vermillion, SD) Fall 2011

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“Happy Ends,” Fifth Wednesday Journal (Lisle, IL) Spring 2011, Issue 8

“Forecast,” Our Stories http://www.ourstories.us/Fall2009Issue/ISukrungruangFA09.html, Fall 2009, vol. 4, Issue 1

“Ordinary World,” Ascent (Moorehead, MN) vol. 32, no. 2, Winter 2009

“Love-40,” New Plains Review (Edmond, OK) vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2009

“The Dishwasher,” Passages North (Marquette, MI) vol. 30.1, Winter/Spring 2009

“Bridgeview Heights Mall,” Hobart (Ann Arbor, MI) Issue #8, Late 2007

“The Golden Mix,” Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction, Wisdom Publications (Somerville, MA) Spring 2004

“Bright Land,” Eclipse (Glendale, CA) vol. 14, Fall 2003; “Nebraska/Kansas.” Vol. 19, Fall 2008

“Fattest, Ugliest, Weirdest.” Crab Orchard Review (Carbondale, IL) Summer/Fall 2008; “The Man with the Buddha Heads.” Spring/Summer 2003

“Wang Town.” Third Coast (Kalamazoo, MI) Fall 2002

Book Reviews and Articles

(Note: Because I am the editor of The Clever Title and Sweet: A Literary Confection, online periodicals, many of my reviews and articles have appeared on these sites and have not been cited below.)

“What Next?” Los Angeles Review of Books, forthcoming

“The Naked Voice, “TriQuarterly (Chicago, IL) July 2, 2014; “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Deep Reading and Mimicry, With and Ending That Totally Plagiarizes Wallace Stevens,” June 2, 2014

“Digging Beyond the Bellybutton,” Essay Daily Blog, January 21, 2014

“A Sequence of Thoughts Without Any Kind of Order,” Bending Genre Blog, December 23, 2013

“On Being Married to Another Writer,” Superstitious Review April 20, 2013

“Good-bye, I, Hello, You,” Field Guide to Flash Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore, Rose Metal Press (Brookline, MA) 2012

Review of Sleep in Me by Jon Pineda. Brevity http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/bookrev/sukrung_sleep.html, 2011

“Bloody Feet.” Grist (Knoxville, TN), Issue 4, 2011

“Can You Smell What [Your Name Here] Is Cooking?” NOW WRITE! Non-Fiction edited by Sherry Ellis, Tarcher/Penguin (New York, NY), 2009

“The Genesis of What If?” Brevity’s Creative Nonfiction Blog, http://brevity.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/the-genesis-of-what-if/, September 27, 2007

Review of Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs from Michigan edited by Michael Steinberg, Crab Orchard Review Fall/Winter 2002

“From Chicken Farmer to Writer: An Interview with Kent Haruf,” Colorado Review (Fort Collins, CO) Fall/Winter 2001

Review of In Siberia by Colin Thubron, Chicago Tribune Book Section 30 January 2000

Reprints

“Chop Suey,” in Two-Countries Anthology forthcoming; Wordsmith (Pearson) forthcoming;Legacies (Nelson

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Education) 2013; How to Write Anything (Bedford/St. Martin) 2010; Creative Nonfiction, Best of Brevity Issue, 2006

“Summer Days, 1983,” in Brief Encounters (W.W. Norton) forthcoming

“The Cruelty We Delivered: An Apology,” Shambhala Sun, forthcoming

“Playing with Buddha,” Lion’s Roar, July 3, 2015

“Southside Buddhist,” in Shambhala Sun, June-July 2015

“Body Replies,” in Going Om: Real Life Stories On and Off the Yoga Mat (Viva Editions) 2014

“How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future,” in The Writer’s Almanac, April 3, 2013; Library of Congress’s Poetry 180 2013

“A Fat Man Thinks About Death,” in The Columbus Dispatch 14 Nov. 2001: 7H

“Famous Last Words,” in St. Petersburg Times, April 12, 2009

“In Thailand It Is Night, “ in Best New Poets (Charlottesville, VA) December 2005

“When Peacocks Scream,” in We the Creatures, Dream Horse Press (San Jose, CA) February 2003

Grants, Awards, Mentions, and Fellowships

American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, Southside Buddhist, 2015

Florida Book Award, Bronze Medal in General Nonfiction, Southside Buddhist, 2015

Zone 3 Creative Nonfiction Award, December 2014

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2013, “To Kill a Thought: A Confession”

Outstanding Research Achievement Award, University of South Florida, Fall 2013

Best Buddhist Writing 2012, “Playing With Buddha”

International Travel Grant, University of South Florida, December 2012

Artsmith Artist Residency Fellowship, Artsmith Foundation, December 2012

Anita Claire Schraff Award, University of Tampa Press, Fall 2012

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2011, “Noisy Neighbors”

Best Buddhist Writing 2011, “Dead Like Me”

The Emerging Writer Fellowship, The Writer’s Center, Summer 2011

Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation, Summer 2011

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2010, “Our Next Lives”

Humanities Institute Summer Grant, University of South Florida, Summer 2010

Winner of the Briar Cliff Review Creative Nonfiction Contest, “Our Next Lives,” Briar Cliff Review, 2009

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2008, “Into the Country”

Winner of the Just Desserts Short-Short Fiction Prize, “The Dishwasher,” Passages North, 2008

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2007, “A World of Adjusters”

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Winter 2006

Student-Faculty Collaborative Grant, SUNY Oswego, Summer 2006

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, 2005

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UUP Professional Development Grant, SUNY Oswego, 2005

International Travel Grant, SUNY Oswego, 2005

Nomination, Pushcart Prize, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Southampton Writers Conference Scholarship, 2003

Arts and Letters Fellowship, 2003

Helen Earnhart Haley Creative Writing Fellowship, A Normal Thai Son: a memoir, The Ohio State University, 2002

Dissertation/Thesis Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2001

Illinois Arts Council Award, “I Could’ve Been Tiger Woods,” 2001

The Haidee Forsyth Burkhart Award in Creative Nonfiction, “Portrait of a Fat Body,” The Ohio State University, 2001

Sante Fe Writers’ Project Literary Award 2000, www.sfwritersproject.com, A Normal Thai Son

Prizewinner of 1999 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Competition in Nonfiction, “A Normal Thai Son”

Notable Essay, Best American Essays 1999, “The Gift”

Teaching Distinction

Nomination for President’s Teaching Award, SUNY Oswego, 2005 and 2006

Vera Carter Cooley Teaching Award, The Ohio State University, 2001

Keynote Speaker

Thai-American Samakkee Summit, Royal Thai Consulate of Chicago, August 23, 2015

Summer Writers’ Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, June 12, 2006

International and National Conference Presentations

Walking the Line: Facts, Research, Memory and Memoir, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 3, 2015

What Binds the Essay Collection?, City University Honk Kong, July 23, 2015

Genre Jumping, City University Hong Kong, July 26, 2014

Literary Adventures in Paradise: Celebrating FLAC’s 10th Anniversary, AWP Conference, March 2, 2014

The Naked I: Nonfiction’s Exposed Voice, Seattle, WA, AWP Conference, March 1, 2014

Monsters Ink, Hands On Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA, December 31, 2013

The Unnatural Use of Time in Memoir: A Sequence of Thoughts Without Any Kind of Order, Hong Kong, City University’s MFA Program, Creative Nonfiction Lecture, July 25, 2013

What You Love to Teach, Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, April 5, 2013

Write Short, Think Long: Flash Nonfiction, AWP Conference, March 8, 2013

Plagiarism in Creative Writing, Boston, MA, AWP Conference, March 7, 2013

Memoir, the Self, and the “Face Blanket,” The Nonfictionow Conference, RMIT University, November 23, 2012

Write Large: On Living the Lives We’ve Made On the Page, The Nonfictionow Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, November 22, 2012

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Your Book Just Came Out. Now What?, Other Words Conference, November 10, 2012

Thai Boy Becomes a Monk, Missouri State Southern University, November 7, 2012

What Is Home?, Missouri State Southern University, November 6, 2012

The Immigrant Son: Confusion, Belonging, Denial, and Understanding, Missouri State Southern University, Joplin, MO, November 6, 2012

What You Love to Teach, Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, March 31, 2012

Four Authors Discuss Their First Nonfiction Books, Chicago, AWP Conference, February 29, 2012

Visiting Writers Panel, Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, October 27, 2011

Obsessions: Writers Writing About What Nags Them, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, June 23. 2011

Writers Who Can’t Keep Still, Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Fairhope, AL, April 8, 2011

(Out of Place) Colloquium, English Graduate Student Association, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, April 14, 2011

Trenton Doyle Hancock Colloquium, University of South Florida, February 25, 2011

Bodies Politic, Washington, DC, AWP Conference, February 4, 2011

Memoir, Spirituality, and the Self in the Narcissistic Culture of Our Time, Washington, DC, February 4, 2011

The Wilderness Suite, NonfictioNow, Iowa City, IA, November 5, 2010

The Spiritual Memoir, West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA, September 30, 2010

Body and Landscape, Place as Blood, Denver, CO, AWP Conference, April 10, 2010

Creative Nonfiction: The Dangerous Genre, Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Fairhope, AL, March 5, 2010

Writers Who Can’t Keep Still, St. Augustine, FL, Other Words Conference, November 7, 2009

Creative Writing Pedagogy, Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Fairhope, AL, April 4, 2009

The Ins and Outs of Publishing, University of South Florida’s Poetry Symposium, March 12, 2009

Midwest Confidential, Chicago, IL, AWP Conference, February 14, 2009

Landscape as Lexicon, St. Augustine, FL, Other Words Conference, November 7, 2008

Genre Jumping, Iowa City, IA, The NonfictioNow Conference, November 3, 2007

What So Funny About Suffering?, Atlanta, GA, AWP Conference, March 3, 2007

Writing the Buddha, Austin, TX, AWP Conference, March 10, 2006

The Golden Pagoda: Southeast Asian American Writers, Vancouver, Canada, AWP Conference, April 1, 2005

Literary Magazines, Why Bother?, Chicago, IL, AWP Conference, March 24, 2004

Readings

Ohio State’s Alumni Writers Extravaganza, Columbus, OH, October 3, 2015

Second Annual Rock and Roll Reading, World Pub, Minneapolis, MN, April 9, 2015

University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, February 13, 2015

Hands On Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA, December 29, 2014

Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, FL, November , November 7, 2014

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St. Leo University, St. Leo, FL, November 4, 2014

Florida Southwestern State College, Punta Gorda, FL, November 3, 2014

Meacham Writers Conference, Chattanooga, TN, November 1, 2014

Writers’ Harvest, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, October 23, 2014

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, October 6, 2014

University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, September 30, 2014

SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, September 27, 2014

Going Om Book Release Reading, Lotus Pond, Tampa, FL, September 20, 2014

SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, April 3, 2014

South Dakota Review: 50th Anniversary Reading, Seattle, WA, February 28, 2014

AWP Underground Lit Reading, Seattle WA, February 28 2014

A Year of Dispatches Reading, Seattle, WA, February 27, 2014

Hands On Literary Festival, New Orleans, LA, December 30, 2013

Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, FL, November 10, 2013

College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL, November 7, 2013

The Avalon on the Island, Orlando, FL, November 6, 2013

Edison State University, Punta Gorda, FL, November 5, 2013

Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading, St. Petersburg, FL, October 26, 2013

True Stories, Atlanta, GA, October 18, 2013

Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, September 26, 2013

Around the World in Sixty Minutes, University of South Florida, September 25, 2013

Wordier Than Thou Storytelling Event, St. Petersburg, FL, August 29, 2013

An Afternoon with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD, August 18, 2013

City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 23, 2013

Sticks of Fire Reading, Oxford Exchange, Tampa, FL, March 24, 2013

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, March 15, 2013

Writers Forum, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY, February 27, 2013

Other Words Conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, November 10, 2012

Missouri State Southern Univerity, Joplin, MO, November 8, 2012

Yellowjacket Press Fundraising Event, Tampa, FL, September 28, 2012

Life Out Loud Reading Series, Lakeland, FL, September 23, 2012

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, July 24, 2012

University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME, April 12, 2012

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, March 26, 2012

Emerging Writer Fellowship Reading, The Writers’ Center, Bethesda, MD, March 23, 2012

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An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, March 15, 2011

An Afternoon with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, University of South Florida, February 9, 2012

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Florida International University, Miami, FL , December 1, 2011

Other Words Conference, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL, November 11, 2011

Devil’s Kitchen Literary Festival Reading, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, October 28, 2011

Hamline’s Summer Writing Institute, Faculty Reading, St. Olaf University, Northfield, MN, July 27, 2011

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Blue Elephant Books, Decatur, GA, July 19, 2011

Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, June 20, 2011

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, March 28, 2011

An Afternoon with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO, March 27, 2011

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, February 8, 2011

Boise State University, Boise, ID, February 19, 2011

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Katherine Riegel, Inkwood Books, Tampa, FL, January 13, 2011

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, November 3, 2010

Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA, November 1, 2010

Saint Petersburg Festival of Reading, Saint Petersburg, FL, October 22, 2010

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, October 21, 2010

University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, October 18, 2010

Downtown Writers’ Center YMCA, Syracuse, NY, October 8, 2010

River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY, October 5, 2010

SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, October 4, 2010

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Kao Kalia Yang, Magers & Quinn, Minneapolis, MN, August 4, 2010

Bookends on Main, Menomonie, WI, August 3, 2010

A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, Madison, WI, August 1, 2010

Book Cellar Bookstore, Chicago, IL, July 21, 2010

An Evening with Ira Sukrungruang and Lori Gottleib, Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA, June 25, 2010

Customs and Departures: An Evening with Thai-American Authors, PEN Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, June 24, 2010

Sulu DC June Event, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2010

Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2010

St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub, Alexandria, VA, June 13, 2010

Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA, May 11, 2010

Portland State University, Portland, OR, May 10, 2010

Eastern Washington University, Spokane, WA, May 7, 2010

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, May 6, 2010

Village Books, Bellingham, WA, May 5, 2010

Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Fairhope, AL, March 6, 2009

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Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, FL, November 8, 2009

The 2nd Annual Florida Poets Happy Hour and Prime Time Show, Yellowjacket Press, Karma Bar & Café, Tampa, FL, October 9, 2009

SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, April 10, 2008

YMCA Downtown Writers Center, Syracuse, NY 13126, April 7, 2006

Washington University, St. Louis, MO, June 17, 2006

National Poetry Month Celebration, River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY, April 24, 2006

River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY, Scoot Over, Skinny, February 10, 2005

Gulf Coast Creative Writing Teachers Conference, Fairhope, AL, April 4, 2008.Tatnuck Booksellers, Worcester, MA, A Fat Reading, October 14, 2003

River’s End Bookstore, Oswego, NY, A Fat Reading, October 2, 2003

SUNY Oswego, Speak Out: The War Against Iraq, February 2003

Pennsylvania State University, Erie Campus, March 23, 2001

Interviews

Midwestern Gothic, August 18, 2015

International Examiner, February 24, 2014

Brevity Blog, “A Sweet Birthday,” November 12, 2013

Garrison Keillor’s The Writers Almanac, NPR, August 9, 2013

Morning Brew, RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong, July 23, 2013

The Journal, “An Interview with Ira Sukrungruang,” Issue 37.2, Spring 2013

The Writers Forum, Video Interview, February 27, 2013

Newsmakers, KGCS-TV, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m950qGfWL5o&feature=youtu.be, Joplin, MO, December 2012

The Fix, “An Interview with Ira Sukrungruang,” July 25, 2012

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, July 25, 2012

Palm Harbor Community School Book Club, September 19, 2011

Daytime TV, NBC Tampa, January 13, 2011

Narrative: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Narrative Nonfiction, http://richardgilbert.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/qa-ira-sukrungruang/, January 11, 2011

Rain Taxi, Vol. 15 No. 3, Fall 2010

WUML Radio, Boston, It’s Your Health Radio with Lisa Davis, May 20, 2010

Podcast, Stargazing Stories with Carol Stalcup, April 21, 2010

WFAN Radio, New York City, Bob Salter, April 25, 2010

Podcast, Psychjourney with Deborah Harper, April 14, 2010

Dot to Dot Radio, The Catherine Bradford Show, http://www.wellnessrdshow.com/archives/shows/?id=100279, April 1, 2010

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Internet Radio, Catch That Book, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/catch-that-book/2010/03/31/talk-thai-with-ira-sukrungruang, March 30, 2010

WUSF Radio, Tampa, Florida Stories with Katherine Riegel, April 2, 2010

WMNF Radio, Tampa, Poetry Is, October 17, 2009

WCNY Television, Syracuse, Hour CNY, May 11, 2005

KPFA Freedom of Speech Radio, Berkeley, Morning Show, April 20, 2005

WRVO Radio, Oswego, February 2005

The Metro UK Newspaper, London, December 2004

Harcourtbooks.com, New York, December 2004

Dominion Post Newspaper, New Zealand, October 11, 2003

National Post Newspaper, Canada, October 3, 2003

710 WOR Radio New York, Phil Lempert’s Shopping Smart, September 28, 2003

Talk 1116 3AK Melbourne Radio, Australia, Breakfast Show, September 3, 2003

Spin 103.8, Dublin Radio, September 3, 2003

Wireless News Flash, September 2, 2003

Book Magazine, June 25, 2003

Editorial Experience

Editor, Sweet Publications, www.sweetpublications.com, August 2011-present

Founding Editor, Sweet: A Literary Confection, www.sweetlit.com, December 2007-present

Founding Editor, The Clever Title Book Reviews and Other Cool Things, www.theclevertitlebookreviews.blogspot.com, September 2007-present

Consulting Editor, Saw Palm Review, www.sawplam.usf.edu, August 2008-present

Associate Nonfiction Editor, The Journal, May 2000-June 2002

Contributing Editor, MoonRabbit Review, January 1998-August 1998

Managing Editor, Grass Roots, August 1997-May 1998

Editorial Intern, Crab Orchard Review, January 1997-May 1998

Writing Workshop Appointments

Faculty, Meacham Writers Conference, November 2014

Faculty, Other Words Conference, November 2011-2014

Workshop Instructor, Saint Leo University, Sandhill Writers’ Retreat, May 2013-May 2014

Workshop Instructor, Douglas Anderson Writers’ Festival, March 3, 2012

Workshop Instructor, Hamline University, The Summer Writing Institute, July 24-30, 2011

Writer-In-Residence, Washington University, The Summer Writing Institute, June 12-19, 2006

Workshop Instructor and Lecturer, SUNY Oswego, The Writing Institute, July 10-16, 2005

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Residencies

Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, October 2014

Ragdale Residency, Lake Forest, IL May-June 2011 and November 2014

Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, December 2006

Southampton Writers Conference, Southampton, NY, July 2003

Arts & Letters Writers Workshops, Milledgeville, GA, May 2003

Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR, August 2001

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, NY, June-July 2001

Service

Service to the Discipline

Association of Writers and Writing Program, Board Member, South Representative 2013-present

Write Now: USF’s High School Creative Writing Camp, Coordinator, August 2013-present

Manuscript Reviewer for Textbooks:

Preliminary Textbook Reviewer, Crafting Truth: Short Studies in Creative Nonfiction, Longman Publishers, December 2007

Preliminary Textbook Reviewer, Tell It Slant, McGraw-Hill, December 2003

University and National Award Committees:

Judge, Rose Metal Press Chapbook Competition, 2016

Judge, Helen Earnhardt Fellowship, Spring 2015

Judge, The Journal Creative Nonfiction Contest, Summer 2013

Judge, Syracuse University Student Writing Contest, Spring 2013

Judging Panelist, Florida Literature Fellowship, 2012

Judging Panelist, Ragdale Foundation Residency in Nonfiction, 2011-2012

Judge, Dogwood Prose Contest, Dogwood Journal, 2012

Judge, The Annie Dillard Award, The Bellingham Review, 2011

Judge, Newhouse Writing Awards, Creative Nonfiction, LeMoyne College, May 2010

Judging Panelist, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Panel in Prose Writing, 2007

Judging Panelist, New York Foundation of the Arts Nonfiction Literature Panel, 2007

Judge, Creative Nonfiction Student Competition, The Ohio State University Marion, 2003

Screener, The Journal /William Allen Award in Nonfiction, 2000 and 2001

Screener, Nelson Algren Award, The Chicago Tribune, April 2000; April 2001; April 2002

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Writers’ Guild President, The Ohio State University, September 2000-May 2001

Service to the Department of English (University of South Florida)

Faculty Advisor of Thread, August 2009-present

Representative for Florida Coalition of the Arts, April 2009-present

Dissertation Committees

Danita Berg, member, November 2008-April 2010

MFA Thesis Committees

Aaron Coder, co-director, December 2014-present

Noah Pearlstone, member, December 2014-present

Sara Walter, member, December 2014-present

Kristen Rouisse, member, December 2014-present

Brittany Cagle, director, March 2013-May 2015

Riley Passmore, director, March 2013-May 2015

Christina Lutz, member, March 2013-May 2015

Aaron Singh, co-director, March 2013-May 2015

Brogan Sullivan, director, March 2012- May 2014

Jenni Nance, director, March 2012- May 2014

Whitney Egstad, director, March 2012- May 2014

Ryan Cheng, member, March 2012- May 2014

Christine Lasek, member, March 2012- May 2014

Michael Ruso, member, March 2012- May 2014

Lacie Meier, member, March 2012-May 2014

Ryan Little, member, March 2010-December 2013

Alan Shaw, director, January 2012-May 2013

Gloria Munoz, member, April 2011-May 2013

Phillip Deiterich, member, April 2011-May 2013

Zachary Lungren, member, April 2011-May 2013

Enaam Alnaggar, member, April 2011-May2013

Kim Karalius, member, April 2011-2013

Rebecca Claire Stephens, member, April 2011-2013

Melissa Carroll, director, March 2011-May 2012

Jaquira Diaz, member, March 2011-May 2012

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Winonna Pasquini, member, March 2011-May 2012

Trisina Dickerson, member, March 2011-May 2012

Mary Jo Tutterow, member, March 2010-December 2012

Bryan Rice, member, March 2010-April 2011

Brandon Pettit, member, March 2010-December 2010

Alicia Thompson, member, March 2010-April 2011

Lauren Oetinger, member, March 2009-April 2010

Shawn Alff, director, March 2009-April 2010

James Miller, member, November 2008-April 2010

Erin Trauth, member, February 2009-April 2010

Ryan Zimmerman, member, August 2008-December 2008

Shannon Zimmerman, member, August 2008-December 2008

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committees

Hannah Lay, director, August 2015-present

Rebecca Jensen, director, August 2013-May 2014

Bryana Fern, member, August 2013-May 2014

Brittni Suter, member, August 2013-May 2014

Caroline Haughton, member, August 2012-May 2013

Amanda Buck, member, August 2012-May 2013

Jack Divani, director, August 2012-May 2013

Jerred Metts, director, August 2011-May 2012

Sarah Walters, director, January 2012-May 2012

Thu Can, member, January 2012-May 2012

Sara Doane, director, January 2010-April 2011

Victoria Reeves, director, January 2011-April 2011

Conner Holmes, director, January 2011-April 2011

Leslie Salas, director, August 2009-April 2010

Cassie Hijian, member, August 2009-April 2010

Shannon Rowe, director, August 2009-April 2010

Evette Mazzo, member, August 2009-April 2010

Alexander Padron, director, August 2008-April 2009

Jessica Lotzkar, director, January 2009-April 2009

Department Committees

Adjunct Visitation Committee, August 2008-April 2010, August 2014-present

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FEC Committee Ad-Hoc, member, August 2013-present

Creative Writing Committee, August 2008-present

Graduate Committee, August 2008-present

Graduate Awards Committee, August 2009-present

Recruitment Committee, August 2013-April 2014

FEC Committee, chair, August 2011-May 2013

Executive Committee, chair 2012, August 2011-May 2013

Service to the University of South Florida

Faculty Advisory Committee for the Institute for Research in Art, August 2009-present

Alternate Diversity Committee Member, August 2009-April 2010

Service to SUNY Oswego

English Department Committees

Creative Writing Committee, August 2002-June 2008

Promotion and Merit Committee, May 2005-September 2007

Recruitment Committee, English Department, September 2003-2005

University Committees

Climate Commitment Academic Steering Committee, October 2007-February 2008

Individual Development Awards Program Committee, February 2006-February 2008

Oswego Reading Initiative Committee, May 2005-February 2008

Artswego Programming Committee, October 2004-May 2008

Faculty Advisor, Asian Student Organization, May 2003-September 2004, September 2005-2007

Service to the Community

Conference Organizer

Blank Pages, USF’s Creative Writing Symposium, 2012, 2013, 2014

Fundraising Event Coordinator

Writers’ Harvest, University of South Florida, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Todadachi: USF Writers Unite for Japan, April 18, 2010

Words to Help, Words to Heal: A Benefit Reading for Haiti, Dishtopia: The Anytime Tea Bar, February 12, 2010

Asian American Literary Celebration, SUNY Oswego, April 4, 2006

Mother Tongue Reading series, Columbus, OH, 2000-2001

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Writers’ Harvest: a benefit reading for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, Columbus, OH, 2000

References

Lee Martin, The Ohio State University, martin.1199@osu.edu Xu Xi, City University Hong Kong, Xu.xi@cityu.edu.hk Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida, hhawkins@usf.edu