Scott Ward, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, M.A., University of South Carolina, is a poet whose first volume, Crucial Beauty, won the 1990 Loiderman Poetry Prize. He is also the winner of the 1987 Hackney Poetry Award and the 1986 American Poets Prize. His second book is Portraits, 1993. His poetry has appeared in The Hiram Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Sou'wester, Birmingham Poetry Review and The Chattahoochee Review. He has served as poetry editor of Southern Humanities Review and is currently an assistant editor for Shenandoah. Professor Ward's other interests are translating Latin texts, the history of the Bible, and aviation.

His poetry also can be found in these anthologies:

In Our Own Words: Alabamians Read Alabama
Alabama Poets: A Contemporary Anthology
From the Green Horseshoe: The Poems of James Dickey's Students
Due South: An Anthology of Auburn Writers

The Bats
My Brothers Make a Lantern
My Grandmother's Legend
Showering My Son
Cruel

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