Scott Guild is the creator of Plastic, a novel-and-album project released this year from Pantheon Books and North Street Records. A queer writer and musician, he received his MFA from University of Texas at Austin and his PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He also served for years as assistant director of Pen City Writers, a prison writing initiative for incarcerated students, led by the author Deb Olin Unferth. He is currently an assistant professor at Marian University in Indianapolis, where he teaches literature and creative writing, as well as courses at Indiana Women’s Prison. Before his degrees, Scott was the songwriter and lead guitarist for the new wave band New Collisions, which toured with the B-52s and opened for Blondie. His work has appeared in Time Magazine, NPR, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Stereogum, The Fader, and many others.
2024 Festival Sessions