Joanna Scott
AUTHOR
Photo by J. Adam Fenster, University of Rochester
Joanna Scott is the author of ten novels, including Arrogance (PEN-Faulkner finalist), The Manikin, (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and Follow Me, (a New York Times Notable Book). She has also published three collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes (PEN-Faulkner finalist), Everybody Loves Somebody, and Excuse Me While I Disappear.
Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Scott and her late husband, James Longenbach, renowned poet and literary scholar, raised their family in Rochester, New York. Scott has taught at Brown University, Princeton University, the New York State Writers Institute, and is currently the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor at the University of Rochester. She divides her time between Connecticut, Rochester, and New York City.