Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1965
• Where—El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
• Raised—Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas
• Education—University of Texas; Texas State University
• Awards—Whiting Writers’ Award
• Currently—lives in Chicago, Illinois
Scott Blackwood is the author of the 2015 novel See How Small and the 2009 novel We Agreed to Meet Just Here, which won a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award, the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Texas Institute of Letters Award for best work of fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen Center USA Award in fiction.
His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, Southwest Review, Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row Journal, and New York Times. It has been anthologized in Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing.
His two narrative nonfiction books, The Rise and Fall of Paramont Records, Volumes I & II—produced by Jack White—tell the curious tale of a white-owned "Race record" label that began in a Wisconsin chair factory and changed American popular music forever. Scott has been individually nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Volume I and featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Sound Opinions, and in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. A former Dobie Paisano Fellow and long-time resident of Austin, Texas, Scott now lives in Chicago and teaches fiction writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Southern Illinois University. (Adapted from the author's website.)
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