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
“The Fishpond”
The Antioch Review
Summer 2010
“Rocks”
Yemessee
2009
“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
“Drinking at the
Fountain of Youth”
Kenyon Review
fall 2010
“Sleeping in the
Mountains” Kestrel
Fall 2005
“Armistice Day”
Gettysburg Review
Autumn 1996
Novels
The Elephant
Mountains
Orca Books
forthcoming
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
Dream Fishing Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama forthcoming in fall 2010
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
“Hunting
Without a Dog”
Afield:
American Writers on Bird Dogs
2010
“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 fall 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.