HSTQ: Winter 2025

Scott C. Holstad’s Shadows Before the Maiming: Thirty-seven modern poems with deep fantasy-and-terror impact.

Gothic Press

Shadows Before the Maiming

Contributing critic.

Pearson, Boston, 2016.

Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 5th ed.

Scott Holstad is a hardworking poet whose new book, Places, has just been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. - VOX

Sterling House

Places

Your most recent book, The Napalmed Soul, is frequently described as “disturbing...” - Unlikely Stories

Chiron Review Press

The Napalmed Soul

"Scott Holstad knows how to play to his audience."

Pulitzer Prize nominee visits ‘Places’ in personal history

Authors Guild Profile: Scott C. Holstad

Article by editor Miika Miiettunen..

Finnish to English translation with side-by-side rendering by Scott Holstad.

Biographical introduction of Scott C. Holstad to readers of Finnish magazine Rendezvou’ssa

EBUS Music News (Germany) Review Mention of Scott C. Holstad's PLACES

It was such a privilege for me to interview and pick the brain of Scott Holstad, a writer I’ve known for many years. A poet, technical writer, English professor and over-educated man, Holstad holds degrees from three Universities. 

Holstad Interview -- Orthogonal Review

This review is part of a larger review for a volume of the Asheville Poetry Review, in which the Sandburg essay was published.

Brief Review of Carl Sandburg Essay in NewPages

Poets & Writers Directory: Scott Holstad

A poem by decorated author Lisa Zaran dedicated to/for Scott Holstad

Fairing (for Scott Holstad) by Lisa Zaran

When poetry focuses on the more sinful, cruel & pathological side of human nature, we refer to it as "dark." I wouldn't describe his poetry that way. His works are so violent, angry & self-effacing, they seem to transcend darkness. - Unlikely Stories

Unlikely Stories Presents SCOTT HOLSTAD (1998-2004)

UT graduate Scott Holstad has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and in some ways he has Knoxville to thank for it...



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