Meet the Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose Fiction Judge

Ron Kuka, Faculty Associate and Creative Writing Program Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, will judge the fiction category for this year’s Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Expose. (Submissions are due July 1!)

Kuka teaches fiction writing; directs senior creative theses; and supervises student staff on The Madison Review, the program’s national literary magazine.

He also assists with the Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellowships; trains teaching assistants; helps run the creative writing reading series; and coordinates the program’s course registration procedures.

His short stories have appeared in the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Toyon, and Pavement. His teaching has been recognized with the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The Peninsula Pulse is honored by his participation in our annual contest.