2004 RC creative writing alum Ian Ross Singleton’s novel, Two Big Differences, will be published by MGraphics out of Boston in October 2021, with illustrations by William Ford. Excerpts of Ian’s novel are available in the fifth RC Alumni Journal (a PDF of the issue is viewable here, and also on the RCWriters website, under the journals tab).
Ian is a writer and translator of the wonderful English and Russian languages. He is a Professor of Writing at Baruch College and Fordham University and an alternate delegate in his union, the Professional Staff Congress. His short stories, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals such as: Saint Ann’s Review; Cafe Review; New Madrid; Midwestern Gothic; Fiddleblack; Asymptote; Ploughshares; The Los Angeles Review of Books and Fiction Writers Review. His short-story collection manuscript Grow Me Up was a finalist for the 2020 Tartts Fiction Award. He judged the 2017 Hopwood Award contest at U-M. Ian has taught Creative Writing and Literature for New York Writers Workshop, San Francisco State University, Cogswell Polytechnical College, the Prison University Project, and the PEN Prison Writing Program.
