Scott is a poet from Llano, Texas and former Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at NYU, where he taught creative writing and completed an MFA. His poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Narrative Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, West Branch, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbooks Highway or Belief, Ascension, and On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County. Honors for these collections include the 2013 Button Poetry Prize, 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Prize, and 2015 Tree Light Books Prize. His first full-length collection, Requiem for Used Ignition Cap, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and 2015 Writers' League of Texas Book Award and selected by C. Dale Young as the winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. It also won the 2016 Best First Book of Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His second full-length collection, What Flesh Inherits, will be published in fall 2026 by Texas Review Press. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, works for a startup, and pitches for a sandlot baseball team called the Jardineros.

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