JD Scott is a

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and

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based poet and writer. They are the winner of the 2018 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize, which produced the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day. The collection has been positively covered by multiple literary periodicals including Tor.com, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and

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. They are also the author of two poetry

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s, ''Night Errands'' (winner of the 2012 Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry) 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 and was described by Publishers Weekly as a "startling", "memorable and energetic debut." Their writing has been anthologized in ''BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing'' and '' Best New Poets 2017.'' Scott's writing has been described as full of "something ominous, wolf-like lurking" and "unsurpassable in its #sorrynotsorry earnestness". Scott was a

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

Bibliography

*''Mask for Mask'' Moorhead, MN. New Rivers Press. 2021 *''Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day'' Lake Forest, IL. Lake Forest Press/&NOW Books. 2020 *''FUNERALS & THRONES'' Athens, GA. Birds of Lace. 2013 *''Night Errands'' Tampa, FL. YellowJacket Press. 2012

Short fiction

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* Living people 21st-century American poets Writers from Tampa, Florida Poets from Florida Writers from Brooklyn Poets from New York (state) American non-binary writers American LGBT poets 21st-century American LGBT people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Alabama alumni Non-binary poets {{US-poet-stub