JD Scott

{{short description|American poet}}

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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,{{cite web|title=JD Scott awarded Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency|url=http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/9644-jd-scott-awarded-plonsker-emerging-writers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703075316/http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/9644-jd-scott-awarded-plonsker-emerging-writers|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 3, 2018|access-date=2 July 2018|publisher=Lake Forest College}} which produced the story collection Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day.{{Cite web|title=Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day {{!}} Northwestern University Press|url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/moonflower-nightshade-all-hours-day|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117063754/http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/moonflower-nightshade-all-hours-day|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 17, 2019|access-date=2020-09-26|website=nupress.northwestern.edu}} The collection has been positively covered by multiple literary periodicals including Tor.com,{{Cite web|last=Tor.com|date=2020-06-24|title=Tor.com Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2020—So Far|url=https://www.tor.com/2020/06/24/tor-com-reviewers-choice-the-best-books-of-2020-so-far/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Tor.com|language=en-US}} The Rumpus,{{Cite web|date=2020-06-24|title=Queer, Magicked Reality: A Conversation with JD Scott|url=https://therumpus.net/2020/06/the-rumpus-interview-with-jd-scott/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=The Rumpus.net|language=en}} Electric Literature,{{Cite web|date=2020-06-09|title=All the Best Weird Fiction Comes from Florida|url=https://electricliterature.com/all-the-best-weird-fiction-comes-from-florida/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Electric Literature|language=en-US}} and Lambda Literary.{{Cite web|date=2020-04-02|title=Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of April 2020 -|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2020/04/april-lgbtq-books/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}} They are also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Night Errands (winner of the 2012 Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry){{cite web|url=http://cltampa.com/tampa/peter-meinke-prize-reading-jd-scott/Event?oid=3459080|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305064414/http://cltampa.com/tampa/peter-meinke-prize-reading-jd-scott/Event?oid=3459080|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2016|publisher=Creative Loafing|access-date=21 October 2014|title=Peter Meinke Prize Reading: J.D. Scott}} 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 {{Cite book|last=Scott|first=J. D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YA62zAEACAAJ|title=Mask for Mask|date=March 2021|publisher=New Rivers Press|isbn=978-0-89823-403-9|language=en}} and was described by Publishers Weekly as a "startling", "memorable and energetic debut."{{Cite web|date=2021-04-16|title=Poetry Book Review: Mask for Mask|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89823-403-9/|access-date=2021-05-03|website=Publishers Weekly|language=en-US}} Their writing has been anthologized in BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=JD|title=BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0819576071|editor-last=Kearney|editor-first=Douglas|series=Bax Series ed. Edition (January 5, 2016)|chapter=Cantica}} and Best New Poets 2017.{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=JD|title=Best new poets 2017 : 50 poems from emerging writers|publisher=University Of Virginia Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0997562316|editor-last=Diaz|editor-first=Natalie|location=Charlottesville, Virginia|chapter=Altarpiece in apricot light}} Scott's writing has been described as full of "something ominous, wolf-like lurking"{{cite web|url=http://thetwokeyspress.com/post/83623785402/jd-scott|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529094427/http://thetwokeyspress.com/post/83623785402/jd-scott|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=J.D. Scott|publisher=The Two Keys Press|access-date=21 October 2014}} and "unsurpassable in its #sorrynotsorry earnestness".{{cite web|url=http://sabotagereviews.com/2014/06/30/funerals-thrones-by-jd-scott/|title=Funerals & Thrones by JD Scott|access-date=21 October 2014|publisher=Sabotage Reviews|date=30 June 2014}}

Scott was a Lambda Literary Fellow and edited the Emerge: 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-11|title=Read This! An Excerpt from Emerge: The 2018 Lambda Fellows Anthology|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2019/04/emerge-2018/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}} They were the editor of Moonshot,{{Cite web|date=2013-10-15|title=Editor's Corner #16: JD Scott for Moonshot • VIDA: Women in Literary Arts|url=https://www.vidaweb.org/editors-corner-16-jd-scot-for-moonshot/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=VIDA: Women in Literary Arts|language=en-US}} a literary magazine, and are the current editor of AADOREE.{{Cite web|title=About » AADOREE|url=http://adoreadoreadore.com/about/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=AADOREE|language=en-US}} Scott has been committed to building literary community in multiple locations, founding the reading series Sacred Grove in Tuscaloosa,{{Cite web|title=About|url=http://sacredgrovereadingseries.weebly.com/about.html|website=Sacred Grove Reading Series & Seminars|access-date=2020-05-20}} AL and Moveable Beasts: A Reading Series That Roams in Tampa, FL.{{Cite web|title=CV Highlights + Press {{!}}|url=http://jdscott.com/press/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-20}}