Cameron Scott was born in Denver, CO in 1977 and graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. He received a Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, from the University of Arizona in 2004, where he also taught a creative writing workshop at Voices 110 Degrees, a writing program for at risk youth in Tucson, AZ for two years before taking a road trip in search of his roots and trout.

Since then he has lived and worked in Crested Butte, CO as a fly fishing guide at Dragonfly Anglers, for poet David Rothman and Conundrum Press, and participated in local performance poetry readings as part of a group called Wild Word before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley where he worked at the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, is a guide at Taylor Creek Fly Shop in Basalt, CO, is the poetry editor for “Rise Forms” :http://www.riseforms.com, a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, teaches a weekly poetry workshop at the Basalt Library, participates in the Aspen Poets’ Society and has attended and loves the writing program at Pacific University and also the Colorado Art Ranch.