Scot Siegel

Author's Bio

Scot Siegel is the author of four books of poetry. His second full-length collection, Thousands Flee California Wildflowers, is due out from Salmon Poetry in early 2012. Siegel lives in Oregon where he works as a town-planning consultant, serves on the board of the Friends of William Stafford, and edits Untitled Country Review. Find him at Red Room: www.redroom.com/author/scot-siegel/.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (Salmon Poetry, 2012), Skeleton Says (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Untitled Country (Pudding House Publications, 2009), Some Weather (Plain View Press, 2008)

Anthologies:

Before We Have Nowhere To Stand (Lost Horse Press, 2011), Open Spaces: Voices from the Northwest (University of Washington Press, 2011), Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2010), Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Sierra and Mother Lode (Manzanita Writers Press, 2010), Oregon Stories (Ooligan Press, 2010), Verseweavers (Oregon State Poetry Association, 2009), Aesthetica Creative Works Annual 2011 (Aesthetica Magazine Ltd., )

Journals:

Acorn, ALBA, Dark Sky Magazine, Defenestration, Drash, Elimae, Falling Star Magazine, Front Porch Journal, High Desert Journal, MiPOesias, Naugatuck River Review, New Verse News, OCHO, Open Spaces, Poemeleon, Poets and Artists, Press 1, Red River Review, Referential Magazine, right hand pointing, San Pedro River Review, Stirring, The American Poetry Journal, The Centrifugal Eye, The Externalist, The Oregonian, The Smoking Poet, The Wanderlust Review, tinywords, Tonopah Review, Touch: The Journal of Healing, Windfall

Prizes:

Playa Residency Award, 2012; Best of the Net Anthology nominee, 2010; Pushcart Prize nominee, 2009; Nimrod International Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2008; Aesthetica Magazine (UK) Creative Works Contest, Finalist, 2010 and Commendation, 2009; Oregon State Library and Poetry Northwest List of 150 Outstanding Oregon Poetry Books; Oregon State Poetry Association, First Prize, “Poets Choice”, 2008; Squaw Valley Community of Writers; Oregon State University Provost’s Literary Award, Honorable Mention, 1990; Richard Chambers Environmental Grant, 1990

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Listing last updated: October 27, 2011

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Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

February 29, 2012
The Poetry Center-Chicago Cultural Trust (Reading)
Chicago, IL
April 8, 2012
Valona Deli (Reading)
Crockett, CA