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Scott C Holstad

Author, Poet, Educator, Analyst

Scott C. Holstad has authored 75+ books & has appeared in the Minnesota Review, Exquisite Corpse, Pacific Review, Palo Alto Review, Chiron Review, Southern Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Mad Swirl, Horror Sleaze Trash, Bristol Noir & Blood+Honey. He’s an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Cal State U Long Beach, UCLA & Queens University of Charlotte. Influences include Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Sartre, Burroughs, Lovecraft, Camus & PK Dick. He’s moved 40+ times & lives near Gettysburg PA.

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Books

Selected work

Cover of Horror Sleaze Trash

No, Phoenix was the Silver Dollar Bomb!

Horror Sleaze Trash, 2025

FictionFlash
Cover of Fixator Press

conglomerate telegram by Scott C. Holstad

Fixator Press, 2025

PoetryExperimental Poetry
Cover of Twin Flame Literary

5th Avenue Motel

Twin Flame Literary, 2025

Poetry
Cover of dadakuku

FaUx C0MbEd GaZm—10

dadakuku, 2025

PoetryExperimental Poetry
Cover of miniMAG

breeding evolas

miniMAG, 2025

PoetryExperimental Poetry
Cover of The Argyle Literary Magazine

Breakfast Machine

The Argyle Literary Magazine, 2025

PoetryConfessional Poetry
Cover of The Galway Review

Kelli’s Game

The Galway Review, 2025

FictionShort StoryLiterary
Cover of Bristol Noir

Always Knew It Would Be Like This by Scott C. Holstad » Bristol Noir

Bristol Noir, 2025

FictionShort StoryNoir
Cover of Blood+Honey

three poems — Blood+Honey

Blood+Honey, 2025

PoetryExperimental
Cover of Libre

Madnesses Again

Libre , 2025

FictionShort Story
Cover of A Sufferer's Digest

A Sufferer's Digest - invisible

A Sufferer's Digest, 2025

Poetry
Cover of Mad Swirl

Phoenix ER (Sur)Reality

Mad Swirl, 2024

Fiction
Cover of Clockwise Cat

This is the Last Poem with Fuck in it + 1 other poem

Clockwise Cat, 2024

Poetry
Cover of The Big Windows Review

Hollywood Party Scene(s)

The Big Windows Review, 2023

FictionShort StoryHumor
Cover of Poetry Ireland Review

this is what we are + 2 other poems

Poetry Ireland Review

Poetry

Projects

Other

Graduate gets Pulitzer nomination

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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Unlikely Stories Presents SCOTT HOLSTAD (1998-2004)

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. ...

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

In German

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

Article by editor Miika Miiettunen.. Finnish to English translation with side-by-side rendering by Scott Holstad.

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Holstad Interview -- Orthogonal Review

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...

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Pulitzer Prize nominee visits ‘Places’ in personal history

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

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Brief Review of Carl Sandburg Essay in NewPages

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

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Fairing (for Scott Holstad) by Lisa Zaran

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

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Poets & Writers Directory: Scott Holstad

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Authors Guild Profile: Scott C. Holstad

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