Stewart David Ikeda is
author of the novel, What the Scarecrow Said, published by
HarperCollins-Regan Books.
His short fiction, too, has been widely anthologized in such
collections as also
Voices of the Xiled: A Generation Speaks for Itself
(Doubleday/Main Street Books),
Yellow Light (Temple University Press), and
Last Witnesses (Palgrave Press).
Most recently, his story "Shadey," from a collection that earned a
Hopwood Award for Major Fiction, was selected for inclusion in the 2006
anthology MIXED: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Multiracial
Experience (WW Norton).
Ikeda's stories, poetry, commentaries, creative non-fiction writings,
multimedia features, 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.
Ikeda earned an MFA in Writing from the University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor, and has lectured, led writing 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. He has
also designed and offered seminars for writers with specific emphases on
multicultural traditions and environments, cross-genre experimentation,
and creating works for new media.
Ikeda is currently at work on two new books -- a novel and collection of
short fiction.
