Scott Elliott

Scott Elliott was born in Lexington, Kentucky and grew up in Anchorage, Kentucky and on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. He was educated at Vanderbilt University, Columbia University, and the University of Houston. His stories and essays have been published in the Antioch Review, Forklift Ohio, Hawk and Handsaw, the New York Times, Juked, the Writers Chronicle, Mayday, and elsewhere. His first novel, Coiled in the Heart (Putnam 2003) was a Booksense 76 and a Library of Congress One Community-One Book selection. His second novel Temple Grove (University of Washington Press) will be released on May 1, 2013. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington where he lives with his wife Jenna Terry and their two sons August and Harper.