Martin Scott

Martin Scott is on the English faculty at Eastern Illinois University, and has earned creative writing degrees from the University of Iowa (MFA) and the University of Houston (PhD). He has published poems in such journals as Elixir, Southern Poetry Review, Rockhurst Review, American Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Willow Spring, Rhino, Gulf Coast, and Tampa Review, as well as essays in Fourth Genre, Profession 2001 (MLA), Puerto del Sol, Cimarron Review, Spectacle, RiverSedge, Blue Mesa Review, Poets and Writers Online, King's English, Under the Sun, Many Mountains Moving, and 4X4: The Newport Review. He won the 2000 Larry Levis Editors' Award for Poetry at the Missouri Review, and a $3,000 fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Writers' League of Texas in 2001. His book of essays, On Stealing Books: Personal Essays, won the first book award and will be coming out this fall from Water Press and Media Books. He's also assistant editor at Karamu at EIU. He can be reached at .