Chris and Courtney sit down with Denzel Scott to discuss passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!

Denzel Xavier Scott earned his BA in English from the University of Chicago and received his Writing MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in his hometown of Savannah, GA.

His works appear in Spillway, Decomp, Euphony Journal, and Blacklight Magazine of the University of Chicago, Bombay Gin literary magazine of Naropa University, the Missing Slate literary magazine, Apeiron Review, based out of Philadelphia, the Gambler Mag, based out of New Orleans, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, SLAB magazine of Slippery Rock University and, Linden Avenue. He has a forthcoming publication in Rattle and the Louisville Review.

Denzel Scott is a past recipient of the University of Chicago’s prestigious Summer Arts Council Fellowship Grant. In September 2018, he became one of the winners of Writer Relief’s Peter K Hixson Memorial Prize.

Semi-Finalist for Cave Canem

Find him on Twitter @denzelscott.

Chris L. Butler's BLERD was mentioned as a favorite of Scott's. 

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