Scott Blackwood

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Texas State University (MFA) |genre=Non-fiction |awards=Whiting Award (2011) |website= }} Scott Blackwood is an American novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer. He is the author of three books of fiction and two books of narrative nonfiction on the rise of blues and jazz and the story of the Great Migration. His most recent novel, ''See How Small'', won the 2016 PEN USA Award for fiction.

He grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas before receiving an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and will start his three-year distinguished professor of creative writing at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, this fall. In the past, he has been the visiting associate professor in the creative writing program at the University of North Texas. He previously taught at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Roosevelt University in Chicago, and at the University of Texas at Austin. Provided by Wikipedia