Scott Blackwood is the author of the novel SEE HOW SMALL, published by Little Brown & Company, and in translation by Ponte Alle Grazie in Italy. His previous novel, WE AGREED TO MEET JUST HERE, won a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award, the AWP Prize for the Novel, The Texas Institute of Letters Award for best work of fiction, and was a finalist for the Pen Center USA Award in fiction. The New York Times called his first book, IN THE SHADOW OF OUR HOUSE, “acute, nimble stories, an impressive, accomplished debut.”

His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, Southwest Review, Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row Journal and The New York Times, and been anthologized in Janet Burroway’s Imaginative Writing. His two narrative nonfiction books, THE RISE AND FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS, VOLUMES I & II --- produced by Jack White --- tell the curious tale of a white-owned “Race record” label that began in a Wisconsin chair factory and changed American popular music forever.

Scott was nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Volume I and featured on NPR’s "Weekend Edition," "Sound Opinions," and in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and elsewhere.

A former Dobie Paisano Fellow and long-time resident of Austin, Texas, Scott now lives in Chicago and teaches fiction writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Southern Illinois University.

Books by Scott Blackwood

See How Small

by Scott Blackwood - Fiction

Two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls, who try to connect with and prod to life those they left behind.