Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Tricks of Light , Border Crossings, Guess and Check , Violent Outbursts, Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhouse. Guess and Check won a Bronze Award for multicultural fiction from Electronic Literature. Haywire won the Members’ Choice Award, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.