Andrew Scott

Fiction Writer

Muncie, IN
Indiana US

Author's Bio

Andrew Scott was born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana. He holds writing degrees from Purdue University and New Mexico State University, where he was twice awarded a Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, Ninth Letter, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Glimmer Train Stories, The Writer’s Chronicle, and other publications. With his wife, writer Victoria Barrett, he edits Freight Stories, an online fiction journal. He teaches at Ball State University and lives in Indianapolis.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
The Versus Anthology (Press 53, 2009)
Books:
24 Bar Blues: Two Dozen Tales of Bars, Booze, and the Blues (editor) (Press 53, 2013)
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Naked Summer (Press 53, 2011)
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Modern Love (Sunnyoutside Press, 2006)
Journals:
Esquire
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Glimmer Train
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Writer's Chronicle
Prizes won: 

Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant (twice); Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship, NMSU (twice)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman, My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh, Starting Over by Elizabeth Spencer, Animal Man Omnibus by Grant Morrison, et al.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Lafayette
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Last update: Nov 30, 2014