Scott Owens is the author of 22 collections of poetry, including collaborations with poet Pris Campbell, photographer, Clayton Joe Young, and artist Missy Cleveland. His work has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the NC Poetry Society, the Poetry Society of SC, the NC Writers Network, the Poetry Council of NC, and the Next Generation / Indie Book Awards.
He has been Editor of “Wild Goose Poetry Review,” and “234,” author of a monthly column on poetry, a writer of reviews, and is a professor of English at Lenoir Rhyne University. He has been featured on “The Writer’s Almanac” 6 times, and his articles about poetry have been featured in “The Poet’s Market” 5 years. His work is archived in the South Carolina Poetry Collection at Furman University.
Born in Greenwood, SC, he now lives in Hickory, NC.