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JD Scott

JD Scott is a Brooklyn, New York and Tampa, Florida based poet and writer. They are the winner of the 2018 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize, [1] which produced the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. [2] The collection has been positively covered by multiple literary periodicals including Tor.com, [3] The Rumpus, [4] Electric Literature, [5] and Lambda Literary. [6] They are also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Night Errands (winner of the 2012 Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry) [7] and FUNERALS & THRONES, published with Birds of Lace. Their debut full length poetry collection, Mask for Mask, was released from New Rivers Press in 2021 [8] and was described by Publishers Weekly as a "startling", "memorable and energetic debut." [9] Their writing has been anthologized in BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing [10] and Best New Poets 2017. [11] Scott's writing has been described as full of "something ominous, wolf-like lurking" [12] and "unsurpassable in its #sorrynotsorry earnestness". [13]

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Scott was a Lambda Literary Fellow and edited the Emerge: 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology. [14] They were the editor of Moonshot, [15] a literary magazine, and are the current editor of AADOREE. [16] Scott has been committed to building literary community in multiple locations, founding the reading series Sacred Grove in Tuscaloosa, [17] AL and Moveable Beasts: A Reading Series That Roams in Tampa, FL. [18]

Bibliography

Short fiction

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Frisson2016Scott, JD (Fall 2016). "Frisson". Barely South Review.Scott, JD (2020). "Chinchilla". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Avatars2016Scott, JD (Fall 2016). "Avatars". Baltimore Review .
Their Sons Return Home to Die2016Scott, JD (Fall 2016). "Their Sons Return Home to Die". The Account (7).Scott, JD (2020). "Their Sons Return Home to Die". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Cross2017Scott, JD (Winter 2017). "Cross". Ninth Letter .Scott, JD (2020). "Cross". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day2017Scott, JD (2017). "Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day". Sonora Review (71).Scott, JD (2020). Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
The Teenager2018Scott, JD (2018). "The Teenager". Tampa Review (55).Scott, JD (2020). "The Teenager". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Fordite Pendant2018Scott, JD (2018). "Fordite Pendant". Hotel Amerika . 16.Scott, JD (2020). "Fordite Pendant". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Where Parallel Lines Come to Touch2018Scott, JD (July–August 2018). "Where Parallel Lines Come to Touch". Cicada.Scott, JD (2020). "Where Parallel Lines Come to Touch". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
The Hand That Sews2019Scott, JD (2019). "The Hand That Sews". Mississippi Review . 46 (3).Scott, JD (2020). "The Hand That Sews". Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. Lake Forest College Press.
Your Mother, the Goddess Nuit2019Scott, JD (2019). "Your Mother, the Goddess Nuit". Indiana Review . 41 (1).
Moon Tempest2020Scott, JD (2020). "Moon Tempest". Hayden's Ferry Review (66).

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