Ron Jackson Suresha is an American author and anthologist of more than a dozen books of creative and academic nonfiction, fiction, art, cooking, and poetry.
Suresha was born in Detroit, Michigan, and attended grade school in the northwest suburb of Oak Park. He has been an ordained ULC minister since 1975.
Suresha's nonfiction anthology, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions (2002), includes 30 dialogues with 57 bear-identified men and bear-lovers from around the world, such as comedian Bruce Vilanch, porn model Jack Radcliffe, and Survivor star Richard Hatch. In the introduction, Suresha asserts that Bears on Bears is "the first interview book ... compiled primarily from online interactions" using online chat technology.
A bisexual-identified man and bi rights advocate, Suresha edited, with Peter Chvany, the nonfiction book Bi Men : Coming Out Every Which Way (2006), which was named a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys).
In 2008, Suresha edited for Journal of Bisexuality a special issue commemorating the sexagennial (60th) anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, commonly known as the Kinsey Report, as Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey, which was named a finalist in the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards.
Suresha is founder and publisher of Bear Bones Books, an imprint that issues books by himself and other authors in the bear community.
Suresha published in 2011 a folklore collection of humorous tales about the character Nasreddin Hoca titled, The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin, which was named a Storytelling World Honor Title in 2012 in the adult collections category, and which received a 2013 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award.
With Scott McGillivray, Suresha compiled and wrote a 2012 photobook, Fur: The Love of Hair, for German publisher Bruno Gmünder Verlag, which received a Rainbow Book Award.
In 2014, Suresha edited an anthology of poetry written by and for men of the bear community, Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards, which was named a Rainbow Book Award winner in both the LGBTQ Poetry and Bisexuality categories. That year he published a second collection of Nasreddin stories, Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin, named a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
In 2018 he published a greatly expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of his recipe collection, Mugs o' Joy: Delicious Hot Drinks.
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Acclaimed collection of 270+ authentic, traditional humorous stories, dirty jokes, and crazy anecdotes, including many adult situations and bawdy stories, about the Turkish "Wise Fool" character known especially in Turkey as Nasreddin Hoca.
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A charming, delicious collection of hot drink recipes from around the world.
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Award-winning folk humor collection of 360+ authentic stories, jokes, and anecdotes of the "Wise Fool" character known especially in Turkey as Nasreddin Hoca.
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