Scott Bailey

Scott Bailey, author of Thus Spake Gigolo, grew up in Raleigh, Mississippi, the former home of the National Tobacco Spitting Contest, and he comes from a family of preachers and carpenters. His poems have appeared in journals, such as "The Adirondack Review," "Cortland Review," "Exquisite Corpse," "The Journal," "Meridian," "New York Quarterly," and "Verse Daily." His degrees include a B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude, an M.A. in Creative Writing from the College of Arts & Letters, The University of Southern Mississippi, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University, and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University. He has received fellowships from Florida State University, The Mississippi Arts Commission, New York University, and The Valparaiso Foundation in Spain.