Scott Coffel

Scott Coffel (born 1956 New York City) is an American poet.

He was educated at York College, City University of New York, and at State University of New York at Oneonta. He graduated from Iowa Writers Workshop, with an MFA in 1995. He directs the Hanson Center for Technical Communication at The University of Iowa.

His work has appeared in Missouri Review, Salmagundi, Paris Review, Ploughshares, the American Scholar, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, the Southern Review, and the Wallace Stevens Journal.

He lives in Iowa City with his wife and son.

• 2010 Norma Farber First Book Award
• 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Finalist

• "Double Indemnity"; "Andrei and Natasha" Waywiser
• "MEDIEVAL WOMEN"; "THE SYSTEM OF PTOLEMY", Adiondack Review
• "Tonight Wallace Stevens", Poetry Society of America
• Toucans in the Arctic, Etruscan Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9797450-7-2
• Shivering believer, University of Iowa, 1995

Anthologies

• "God's Double"; "Mountain Jews", The Prairie schooner anthology of contemporary Jewish American writing, Editor Hilda Raz, University of Nebraska Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8032-8971-0