Writing
*Bibliography*
Cameron Scott is the author of four poetry collections: Watershed (2019), The Snake River Poems (2017), The Book of Cold Mountain (2016), and The Book of Ocho (2013).
His work has appeared in fly-fishing magazines including Patagonia, The FlyFish Journal, The Fly-Fishing and Tying Journal, The Drake, Tail Saltwater Fly-Fishing Magazine, Swing the Fly, Trouts' The Current and literary journals and magazines including Apercus Quarterly, Blue Moon, the burnside review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Clerestory Poetry Journal, Cloudbank, Colorado Poets Center, Four and Twenty, Ghost Road Press, Heavy Bear, Herd of Poets, High Country News, Marginalia, Marco Polo, Mountain Gazette, Perigee, Projector Magazine, Rhino, River of Earth and Sky, Rufous Press, Silk Road, Sugar Mule, The La Grande Observer, The Poetry Loft, The Ski Journal, The Sopris Sun, Touchstone, and the Watershed Review.
*About*
Cameron graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and received a Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, from the University of Arizona in 2004 where he also co-taught a creative writing workshop for Voices 110 Degrees, a writing program for at-risk youth in Tucson, AZ.
Hitting the road in search of teaching opportunities and trout, he worked for two years in Crested Butte, CO as a fly fishing guide at Dragonfly Anglers before guiding for Taylor Creek Fly Shops in Basalt, Colorado for a little over a decade. The past few summers he has been guiding on the Grande Ronde for The Minam Store.
He also transitioned from implementing Fishtrap Story Lab for Fishtrap, a literary non-profit in Eastern Oregon, to teaching 9th-12th grade English at Joseph Charter School.
On the side he occasionally works as a freelance writer and editor, developing content for websites and writing for various magazines.
While some of his favorite jobs have included working for Camp Lincoln for Boys and guiding fishing trips, he also enjoys teaching creative writing.
Other places he is grateful for are the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Colorado Art Ranch, Fishtrap, Playa, and Western State University's and Pacific University's low-residency MFA programs.
*Residencies/Awards*
Leader In The Arts, Wallowa County Chamber, 2019
Playa, Artist-in-Residence, April 2019
Pentaculum, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, January 2017
2016 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, co-finalist
2016 Blue Light Book Award, Blue Light Press
Playa, Artist-in-Residence, April-May, 2014
Fishtrap's Wallowa Writer-in-Residence, 2012 to 2013
Sprague/Williamson Writer-in-Residence, 2011 to 2013 Chiloquin Visions In Progress
Carpenter Ranch Artist/Writer in Residence, September 2011, Colorado Art Ranch.
