JD Scott

For JD Scott, one of the Scott Brothers, see Scott Brothers Global

JD Scott is a Brooklyn, New York based poet and writer. They are the winner of the 2018 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize. They are the author of Night Errands (winner of the 2012 Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry) and FUNERALS & THRONES. Scott's writing has been described as full of "something ominous, wolf-like lurking" and "unsurpassable in its #sorrynotsorry earnestness". They were the editor of Moonshot, a literary magazine, and are the current editor of AADOREE. Scott has been committed to building literary community in multiple locations, founding the reading series Sacred Grove in Tuscaloosa, AL and Moveable Beasts: A Reading Series That Roams in Tampa, FL.