Bio |
Scot Siegel, recipient of the 2024 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award, is a city planner, educator, and author of three chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections, including Tender Currencies from MoonPath Press, due out in 2025. Previous volumes include The Constellation of Extinct Stars and Other Poems (2016) and Thousands Flee California Wildflowers (2012), both from Salmon Poetry.
Siegel works with Writing The Land, which pairs poets with land trusts nationwide. He has received First Prize in the Oregon Poetry Association’s annual poetry contest, and the late US Poet Laureate, Philip Levine, recognized Siegel’s long poem, “Pages Torn From a Schoolmarm’s Diary,” as Finalist with Honorable Mention in Nimrod International’s 2012 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize Competition. Siegel’s poems appear in many journals and are part of the permanent public art installation along TriMet’s Light Rail ‘Orange Line’ in Portland, Oregon. He serves on the Editorial Board of The Western Planner Journal, and has received fellowship residencies with Playa at Summer Lake and Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project. Scot was born in Oakland, California, grew up in the mountains around Lake Tahoe, and has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1987. He has two grown daughters. |
Awards, Commendations, Commissions & Service |
Community Service
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