photo credit: Michael Lionstar

Scott Guild is a queer writer, musician, teacher, and advocate for prison reform. In his twenties he was the lead guitarist and songwriter in New Collisions, a Boston art-pop band that toured with the B-52s, opened for Blondie, and collaborated with Greg Hawkes of The Cars. In his thirties he completed the linked novel-and-album Plastic (out this year from Pantheon Books), as well as publishing non-fiction on a number of topics. 

Scott’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, The Los Angeles Times, The Week, NYLON, The Boston Globe, PopMatters, Magnet, The Boston Herald, and many others. He received his MFA from the University of Texas-Austin, his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is now a professor in Creative Writing at Marian University in Indianapolis. A strong advocate for prison reform, Scott served for years as the Assistant Director of Pen City Writers, a creative writing program for students imprisoned in Texas. He also currently teaches at Indiana Women’s Prison, and will be publishing an article in TIME this spring on the heat crisis in American prisons.  

Contact:

Literary Agent

Bill Clegg, The Clegg Agency

bill@thecleggagency.com

Publicity

Demetri Papadimitropoulos

dpapadimitropoulos@penguinrandomhouse.com

All Other Inquiries

guild.scott@gmail.com