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David Ikeda is author of the novel, What the
Scarecrow Said, published by HarperCollins-Regan Books. His work has also appeared in anthologies
including Voices of the Xiled (Doubleday/Main Street Books), Yellow Light
(Temple University Press), and Last Witnesses (Palgrave Press).
Ikeda's short fiction, poetry, commentaries,
creative non-fiction writings and editorial eye have also been seen in a variety of
literary journals, newspapers, and online venues -- among these, Story,
Ploughshares,
Glimmer Train, Pacific Citizen, The Mineta Review,
The
Gallatin Review, A Different Drummer, and IMDiversity.com.
His story "Shadey," part of a collection that earned a Hopwood Award at
the University of Michigan, will appear in MIXED: An Anthology of
Short Stories on the Multiracial Experience, forthcoming from WW
Norton in Fall 2006.
He has also been engaged in developing a variety of new media and online
projects, most notably in roles with the multicultural publishing company, IMDiversity
Inc. and its extensive online and paper magazine network.
Ikeda has received numerous honors for his
writing, including two Hopwood Awards, and has been featured in media, conferences, and
special presentations nationwide. What the Scarecrow Said, which was
nominated by ReganBooks for Pulitzer Prize consideration, was selected for the Barnes
& Noble Discover Great New Writers series and was a 1997 finalist for the award.
Ikeda earned an MFA in Writing from the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, and has lectured, given workshops, and taught literature courses at the
Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, and Boston College, as well as in visiting roles
at colleges, book stores, and community centers across the U.S.
Ikeda is currently at work on two new books -- a novel and collection of
short fiction -- and providing new media planning consulting to a variety of e-businesses,
non-profit organizations, and online media enterprises.
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