Stanley Kusunoki has taught creative writing to young people through programs at The Loft, Asian American Renaissance, Intermedia Arts, and S.A.S.E., The Write Place. He was the recipient of a Loft "Asian Inroads" mentorship, and was awarded a MN State Arts board "Cultural Collaboration" grant to create, write and perform "Beringia--The Land Bridge Project" with Ojibwe performance poet Jamison Mahto at Intermedia Arts. He is the former co-host/curator of the Literary Bridges reading series at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul.

Kusunoki most recently was the High Potential Coordinator at Red Oak Elementary School in Shakopee. He lives in Duluth with his wife, Claudia Daly.