I used to teach university writing courses—first-year composition, fiction writing, screenwriting, and even a popular YA writing course that the department did away with just as YA audiences tripled. Now I write full-time for Rare Bird, a modern marketing firm in greater Indianapolis.
Andrew Scott’s stories are streamlined, intense, and unsettling. His characters don’t quite know themselves, but the author knows them well. They teeter in the margins of safety, in a way that many Americans have been pushed off the path to the dream. I recommend these stories highly.
author of In the Gloaming
In Naked Summer, Andrew Scott brilliantly conjures up my home state of Indiana, that in-between, mixed-up blend of farmland, suburbia, isolated towns and would-be cities stuck in the flyover, but he accomplishes much more than this. His stunning collection of stories also deftly captures those in-between states that everyone finds themselves in at some point—those times of limbo when we’re between jobs or relationships, or, most memorably, that last ‘naked summer’ when childhood lingers and adulthood has not yet arrived. This is a heart-wrenching collection, at once hilarious and wise. I couldn’t put it down.
author of Mermaids on the Moon
Naked Summer has reminded me that I love short stories. Read the collection, people. You will care about his characters.
author of The Silver Linings Playbook
In Andrew Scott’s quietly moving stories, the characters live rooted in loneliness and leaning toward a light. There is wisdom to spare in the way he writes about the choices men and women make and the choices they allow to be made for them
author of Hyssop
Andrew is an author who will create an exciting body of work
author of Let the Great World Spin
Scott writes with a rare synthesis of sensitivity, even delicacy, and matter-of-fact bluntness. It’s a tremendously effective and affecting combination. These are the works of a writer who knows of what he writes.
[Naked Summer is] a surprisingly mature book, a complete and powerful collection of stories.
author of Living to Be 100
Andrew Scott’s stories take place in the Heartland, and they will land squarely in your heart. Unflinching but sweet-tempered, they ring as plaintive and pure as ballads.
author of Don’t Make Me Stop Now
I earned writing degrees from Purdue University and New Mexico State University, where I was twice awarded a Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship. My fiction and nonfiction have been published by Esquire, Ninth Letter, Glimmer Train Stories, The Writer’s Chronicle, and many other outlets. I’ve also published poems, comics, and even a short screenplay.
My words (not bylines) have also appeared in everything from the New Yorker and the New York Times to comics such as Sin City and Spawn.
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A likely inaccurate attempt to keep track of every reading, panel, or presentation I’ve participated in: 3/23/2013. Reading. Indy Reads Books. With Michael Nye. Indianapolis. 3/7/2013. Reading. AWP Conference. With Jared Sexton and Eugene Cross. Boston. 1/26/2013. Reading. Morehead State University. 11/30/2012. Reading. New Mexico State University. Las Cruces, NM.…
