Scott Blackwood

Scott Blackwood is the author of three award-winning books of fiction, the novels SEE HOW SMALL (winner of the 2016 PEN USA Award for fiction, a NY Times "Editor's Choice" pick and an NPR "Great Reads" Book of the year), WE AGREED TO MEET JUST HERE, and a short story collection, IN THE SHADOW OF OUR HOUSE. He's also published a two-volume set of creative nonfiction books about the rise of early Jazz and Blues, THE RISE AND FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS, with musician Jack White, which was nominated for a 2015 GRAMMY AWARD for writing on music. Blackwood has also received a Whiting Writers' Award in Fiction, the AWP Prize for the Novel, Texas Institute of Letters Award for best work of fiction, and was a finalist for the 2016 National Magazine Award in nonfiction. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Texas State University and currently teaches as a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.