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 has worked for the
Aspen Writers’Foundation,

is a guide at Taylor Creek Fly Shop in Basalt, CO

and the poetry editor for Rise Forms, and a contributing editor for Sugar Mule and Cheek Teeth.

This fall/winter Cameron visited the the Colorado Art Ranch in Hayden, CO for a month as an Artist/Writer in Residence before heading to Chiloquin, OR as the Sprague/Williamson Writer-in-Residence and is currently the Wallowa Writer-in-Residence for Fishtrap.

He also thinks the world of the poets in the Roaring Fork Valley and the Aspen Poets’ Society and loves the writing program at Pacific University.

So yeah. Someday he will be better at negative capability in his bio.