Scott Bailey is a poet, a teacher and an editor. His degrees include a PhD in English from Florida State University’s Creative Writing Program (a major concentration in Modern American and British Poetry, minor in American Transcendentalism), a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University, a M.A. in Creative Writing, and a B.A. in English (Summa Cum Laude) from the College of Arts & Letters, The University of Southern Mississippi. He has taught upper and lower-division courses at Florida State University, New York University, and The University of Southern Mississippi. He also has significant experience in the instruction of creative writing in alternative settings, such as correctional facilities, detention centers and hospitals, opportunities made possible from outreach organizations, specifically the Mississippi Arts Commission from which he received a writers-in-residence fellowship, and New York University from which he received a Starworks fellowship.

In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself (MW Enterprises, 2005), Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005), Bend, Don't Shatter (Soft Skull Press, 2003)

2 River Review, 42opus, Adirondack Review, Chelsea, Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, Harpur Palate, Indiana Review, Meridian, New York Quarterly, Poems Niederngasse, Poetry International, Prism International, Segue, Southeast Review, Southern Quarterly, The Journal