Scott Blackwood

Scott Blackwood is the author of two novels, a story collection, and two narrative nonfiction books. His novel See How Small (2015) won the 2016 PEN USA Award for Fiction and was named a best book of 2015 by NPR and an “Editor’s Choice” by the New York Times. His previous novel, We Agreed To Meet Just Here (2009), was awarded the AWP Prize for the Novel, the Texas Institute of Letters Award for best work of fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN USA Award for Fiction. Blackwood’s two narrative nonfiction books, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volumes I & II, published by musician Jack White’s Third Man, tell the tale of a white-owned “Race record” label that began in a Wisconsin chair factory and changed American popular music forever. Blackwood was nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for his writing on Volume I. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Award in Fiction and is a former Dobie-Paisano Fellow and Whiting/OMI Writer’s Residency recipient. Blackwood’ stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Chicago magazine, Gettysburg Review, the New York Times, Southwest Review, and TriQuarterly, and have been anthologized in Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing. Blackwood has taught at the University of North Texas, UT Austin, Northwestern University, University of New Orleans, Southern Illinois University, directed Roosevelt University’s MFA Creative Writing Program, and was been named a distinguished fiction writer-in-residence at Wichita State University.