Kurnaswan, Rudi (b. 1982) is an Indonesian-born writer who immigrated to the United States in 2001. He studied sociology at the University of Minnesota and later completed coursework in creative writing through the University of Iowa's continuing education program. Before publishing fiction, he worked as a hospital intake coordinator and a night-shift clerk at a bus depot, experiences that inform his focus on working-class lives and the quiet politics of small towns. His short stories have appeared in regional journals and were finalists for the 2018 Penumbra Prize for New Voices. He lives in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood with his partner and a rescue dog, and volunteers with community mental health advocacy groups.
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