Cameron Scott was born in Denver, CO in 1977 and graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA having received the first annual English Department Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. He received a Master of Fine Arts, Poetry, from the University of Arizona in 2004, where he received an honorable mention in the 2002-2003 Poetry Center/Academy of American Poets student poetry contest. In 2004 he was selected as one of two alternates for the 2004 Artist in Residence program at the Grand Canyon National Park. He 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. He 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 works 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, participates in the Aspen Poets’ Society and has attended the writing program at Pacific University and loves the Colorado Art Ranch.