Scott Ward

In Conversation Contributing Writer

USA

First Language(s): English

Scott Ward’s first book, Crucial Beauty (1991, Scop Publications), won the 1990 Loiederman Poetry Prize. His other books are Wayward Passages (2006, Black Bay Books) and Rebel: The American Iliad (2021, Adelaide Books). He has served as poetry editor of Southern Humanities Review and Shenandoah. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon) and Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000 (Washington and Lee) and in journals, including The Christian Century, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, Storysouth, Saw Palm, Prime Number Magazine, Tampa Review Online, Washington Square, and Thuya Poetry Review.