VITA
Scott Ely
330 Marion Street
Rock Hill, SC 29730
803 328-9207
sely@comporium.net
EDUCATION
University of Arkansas, MFA, 1986
University of Mississippi, MA, 1973
University of Mississippi, BA, 1968
Associate Professor, English, Winthrop University
1989—
Assistant Professor, English, Winthrop College 1987
89
Adjunct Professor, English, University of Arkansas,
1986-87
Instructor, English, Snead State Junior College, Boaz, AL, 1975-84
Short Stories
"Rocks" Yemessee forthcoming
“The Poisoned Arrow” Arkansas Review 2008
“84 Avenue Foch” Boulevard Spring 2007
“Lovers of Hurricanes” The Antioch Review Winter 2007
“Dream Fishing” Shenandoah Fall 2006
“Wasps” Arkansas Review Fall 2005
“Guatemala City” Boulevard Spring 2005
“Pine Cones” New Letters Fall 2004
“Mississippi Rules” Boulevard Fall 2003
“Stalingrad” Antioch Review Summer 2002
“Rising on Christmas” Arkansas Review December 2001
“Walking to Carcassonne” The Southern Review Autumn 2001
“The Bear Hunters” The Southern Review Winter 2001
“The Bed” Shenandoah Summer/Fall 2001
“Pulpwood” Five Points Winter 2001
“Queen of the Night” 21st A Journal of Contemporary Photography 2001
“Fishing on Sunday” The Southern Review 2000
“The Sweeper” The Antioch Review 1999
“The Gamekeeper” Shenandoah 1998
“Nicolae and the Devil” Shenandoah 1997
“Talk Radio” The Southern Review 1997
"The Angel of the Garden" Gettysburg Review Autumn 1996
“The Literature Teacher The Review 1995
“Love in Singapore" The Southern Review 1994
“The Best Tennis Player in Alligator, Mississippi American Short Fiction, 1994
"The Prisoner" Beliot Fiction Journal 1993
"The Lady of the Lake" Southern Review 1992
"The Sniper" Antioch Review 1992
“Holiday” Yemassee 1990
"Night Vision" Crazyhorse 1989
"White Horse" The Ohio Journal 1980
"Snake" Kansas Quarterly 1979
"Salvation" The Ohio Journal 1978
"Mrs. Addon" Kansas Quarterly 1976
“Sleeping in the Mountains” Kestrel Fall 2005
“Armistice Day” Gettysburg Review Autumn 1996
"Hunting Without a Dog" Afield: Writers on Bird Dogs
Novels
The Dream of the Red Road Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama 2008
A Song For Alice Loom Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama 2006
Eating Mississippi Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama 2005
Pit Bull, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988
Other editions of Pit Bull: Penguin Books, UK; Excerpted in Playboy and published in Playboy in translation in Holland, Germany, and Italy
Starlight, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1987
Other editions of Starlight: Grafton Books, England; Warner Books, USA; Fukote, Japan; Aramis, Poland
Pulpwood Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama 2004
The Angel of the Garden, University of Missouri Press, 1998
Overgrown With Love, University of Arkansas Press, 1993
Anthologies
“Random” included in Short Takes: Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction Norton 2005
“Talk Radio” in Best of the South: The Best of the Second Decade Algonquin Books 2005
“The Lady of the Lake” included in After O’Connor: Contemporary Georgia Stories forthcoming in fall of 2003
“Talk Radio” included in New Stories from the South 1998
Camp Yellow Mountain, original screenplay for LTE Productions, 1995
Adaptation of Starlight for Mercury Entertainment,
1989
“Talk Radio” included in New Stories from the South 1998
"Lady of the Lake" featured in Best American Short Stories 1993 (included in best 100)
Writer in Residence, Appalachian State University 1993
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1992
Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowship 1990
Work reviewed in New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books (lead review), Kirkus Reviews(stared review), The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, The Gettysburg Review (part of an essay review), Cleveland Plain Dealer, USA Today, Southern Magazine, The Providence Sunday Journal, and others.
South Carolina Writers’ Network, Francis Marion University, The University of South Carolina, Central Piedmont Community College, Augusta College, McNeese State University, Appalachian State University,
Charleston Poetry Society, State University of New York at Brockport, Armstrong College, Governor’s School for Arts at Furman University, Presbyterian College, Weiss Institute (Paris), Yuma College, and others.