Thaddeus Rutkowski

In 2020 he published a new collection of poetry, "Tricks of Light". John Brantingham writing on the volume in Cultural Weekly remarked that '...he captures the universal sense of alienation that seems to be a part of human existence especially in this new age of COVID".

In 2017, he was named a panelist by the New York Foundation for the Arts on the committee to select the foundation's non-fiction literature awardees.

In 2012, Rutkowski was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Also in 2012, his book Haywire was named a finalist for Best Fiction by the Asian American Literary Awards.

Rutkowski is the author of three novels. The first, Roughhouse: A Novel in Snapshots was released by Kaya Press in 1999, the second, Tetched: A Novel in Fractals, was released by Behler Publications in 2005, and the third, Haywire, was released by Starcherone Books in 2010. He also wrote Violent Outbursts, a collection of flash fiction (Spuyten Duvil 2015), of which John Amen writing in the Los Angeles Review said, "Rutkowski mines the confessional approach, everyday occurrences, and the fantastical, displaying thematic and stylistic range, with most of the pieces in this collection totaling less than five hundred words in length....". Jim Bourey writing in the Broadkill Review said ...." Haywire is a Thaddeus Rutkowski marvel and each short chapter is a wild ride that carries us through the life of a Polish-American/Chinese man."

Thaddeus Rutkowski (born 1954) is an American author.