W. Todd Kaneko | Information

W. Todd Kaneko is not cool enough to be a rock star, not tall enough to be a professional wrestler, and not virtuous enough to be a super-hero. Before finding his way to writing, he played music in Seattle where he also worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. His stories and poems can be seen in Puerto Del Sol, Crab Creek Review, Fairy Tale Review, Portland Review, Southeast Review, Los Angeles Review, Blackbird, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He is an associate editor for Hayden's Ferry Review and has received fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop and Kundiman. His current projects include a couple of poetry manuscripts, a book of stories, some hypertext fiction, and other endeavors of that sort.

He took his MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. Currently, he teaches in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with the writer Caitlin Horrocks.

That's all for now.

Contact him at Todd [dot] Kaneko [at] gmail [dot] com.

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VITAL STATISTICS. Astrology: Aquarius • Height: 5'2" • Weight: 162 lbs • Corrective lenses • Organ donor • Asthmatic • Tattoos: none. • Elementary schools attended: 3. • Junior high Schools: 3 • High schools: 1 • Classes failed: 4 • Phone lines severed: 1 • Fires started: 1 • Misdemeanors committed: 1 • People ruined: at least 1 • Fistfights: 2 • Punches thrown: 1 • School suspensions: 2 • Expulsions: none • Cars owned: 6 • Cars driven: 16 • Motorcycles ridden: 0.5 • Apartments rented: 8 • Houses rented: 6 • Houses Owned: 0.5 • Roommates: 9 • Wedding invitations received: 26• Weddings attended: 19 • Bachelor parties attended: 5 • Baby showers attended: 2 • Funerals attended: 3 • Deaths witnessed: 1 • Babies held: 4 • Babies fathered: none • Childhood crushes: 11 • Adult crushes: innumerable • Kisses remembered off the top of my head: 8 • Kisses regretted: 1 • Strip clubs attended: 14 • Valentines received from non-family: 7 • Number of times fallen in love: At least 2 • True loves: 1 • Number of adversarial encounters with police: 5 • Canoe trips on acid: 3 • Fake corpses found: 1 • Spiritual visitations: 1 • Encounters with Satan: 2 • Dominatrices met: 3 • Speeding tickets: 6 • Car accidents: 7 • Cars totaled: 2 • Trucks totaled: 1 • Biking accidents: 4 • Staple-Gun accidents: 2 • Skiing accidents: 1 • Ouija board mishaps: 2 • Jobs held: 11 • Relatives worked for: 2 • Times fired: 2 • Times deserved to be fired: innumerable • Number of cocktails mixed in under seven minutes: 12 • Rock bands: 3 • Band names: 6 • Demos recorded: 6 • Concert tours: 1 • Guitars owned: 7 • Guitars broken: 3 • Guitars broken intentionally: 1 • Schools taught at: 3 • Childhood dream jobs: doctor, rock star, professional wrestler, super-hero, bullfrog • Dream jobs now: super-hero.