Lucille Sutton

Lucille Sutton serves as a Lecturer in the Department of English within the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Fresno. Since joining the department in 2001, she has taught composition, creative writing, and literature courses with a focus on student engagement and high academic expectations.

Her educational foundation includes:

• MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from California State University, Fresno
• B.A. in English (Literature) from California State University, Fresno

Dr. Sutton's creative scholarship centers on Vietnamese-American identity formation and cultural duality, drawing from her birth in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and U.S. Navy father. Her current projects explore roller skating subcultures through nonfiction essays and short stories, informed by firsthand experience as both a rink rat and flat track roller derby participant.

Her literary contributions have earned recognition through:

• Publications in Bamboo Ridge Press, Out of Thin Air, Ventura County Star, and San Joaquin Review
• Online features in SN Review, In the Grove, Prick of the Spindle, and JMWW
• Special acknowledgment in Indiana Review's Writers of Color edition

While contest finalist positions demonstrate her competitive literary standing, no formal advising relationships or grant-funded research initiatives are documented in her professional profile.