Ricco Villanueva Siasoco has been published fiction and essays in Joyland, The North American Review, Drunken Boat, Memorious, Flyway, and ArchitectureBoston, among others. His work has been anthologized in Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice (Carayan Press, 2010), Screaming Monkeys (Coffee House Press, 2003), and Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2000). He has received fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The LEF Foundation, and PEN New England, and holds a M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He has taught creative writing at Boston College, Massachusetts College of Art, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Website: http://rsiasoco.wordpress.com/

Twitter Username: @Rsiasoco

Publications

• Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice , Carayan Press (2011)
• Screaming Monkeys: Critiquing Asian American Images , Coffeehouse Press (2003)
• Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America , Asian American Writers Workshop (2000)

Awards

• Walker Felowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown(2005)
• PEN New England Discovery Award(1999)
• NYC Emerging Writer Fellow(2013)

Employment

• Director of Undergraduate Affairs at Prep for Prep (September 2011 - )
• Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston College Dept. of English (September 2001 - September 2011)

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature from Bennington College (January 2001)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction