Scott Ward is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Eckerd College on Florida's Gulf Coast. His first volume of poetry, Crucial Beauty (Scop Publications), won the 1990 Loiderman Poetry Prize. He has served as poetry editor of Southern Humanities Review and Shenandoah. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon) and Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000 (Washington and Lee) and journals, including America, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, and The Christian Century.
