{{short description|American poet and writer}} {{for|another person called JD Scott|Scott Brothers Global}}
{{Infobox writer | name = JD Scott | occupation = Poet, writer | language = English | genre = Poetry, short fiction | notableworks = ''Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day'' (2020); ''Mask for Mask'' (2021) | awards = Shirley Jackson Award nominee (Single-Author Collection, 2020) | website = {{URL|http://jdscott.com/}} }}
'''JD Scott''' is an American poet and writer based in Brooklyn, New York, and Tampa, Florida. Scott won the 2018 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Residency Prize at Lake Forest College, which supported completion of the story collection ''Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day'' (2020).<ref>{{cite web|title=JD Scott awarded Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency|url=http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/9644-jd-scott-awarded-plonsker-emerging-writers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703075316/http://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/9644-jd-scott-awarded-plonsker-emerging-writers|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 3, 2018|access-date=3 March 2026|publisher=Lake Forest College}}</ref>
''Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day'' received a starred review from Foreword Reviews and was a Foreword INDIES finalist in Short Stories (Adult Fiction).<ref>{{cite web|title=Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/moonflower-nightshade-all-the-hours-of-the-day/|website=Foreword Reviews|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day (Foreword INDIES finalist)|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/moonflower-nightshade-all-the-hours-of-the-day/|website=Foreword Reviews|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref> The collection was also a nominee for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards in the Single-Author Collection category.<ref>{{cite web|title=2020 Shirley Jackson Award Winners|url=https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2020-shirley-jackson-award-winners/|website=The Shirley Jackson Awards|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref>
Scott's debut full-length poetry collection, ''Mask for Mask'' (New Rivers Press, 2021), was reviewed by Publishers Weekly.<ref>{{cite web|title=Poetry Book Review: Mask for Mask|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-89823-403-9/|website=Publishers Weekly|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref>
Scott's work has appeared in anthologies including ''BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing'' and ''Best New Poets 2017''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=JD|title=BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0819576071|editor-last=Kearney|editor-first=Douglas|series=Bax Series ed. Edition (January 5, 2016)|chapter=Cantica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=JD|title=Best new poets 2017 : 50 poems from emerging writers|publisher=University Of Virginia Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0997562316|editor-last=Diaz|editor-first=Natalie|location=Charlottesville, Virginia|chapter=Altarpiece in apricot light}}</ref>
==Personal life== Scott uses they/them pronouns.<ref>{{cite web|title=Queer, Magicked Reality: A Conversation with JD Scott|url=https://therumpus.net/2020/06/24/the-rumpus-interview-with-jd-scott/|website=The Rumpus|date=24 June 2020|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref>
==Works== * ''Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day'' (Lake Forest College Press/&NOW Books, 2020)<ref>{{cite web|title=Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day|url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/moonflower-nightshade-all-hours-day|website=Northwestern University Press|access-date=3 March 2026}}</ref> * ''Mask for Mask'' (New Rivers Press, 2021)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=J. D.|title=Mask for Mask|date=March 2021|publisher=New Rivers Press|isbn=978-0-89823-403-9|language=en|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YA62zAEACAAJ}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website|http://jdscott.com/}}
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