About Scott Wiggerman

Poetry editor for the "Texas Writer," 1996-present.
Former editor for "Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review."
Board member of the Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF), 1996-2002.

1. Poetry 101: The Way We Word
   http://poetry101.onlineclasses.com

B.A. in English, Grand Valley State University, 1975.
M.A. in English and M.L.S., Western Michigan University, 1980.

Instructor of English, Southwest Texas State University, 1980-1983.
Librarian, Austin Independent School District, 1986-present.
Instructor for UniversalClass.com since 2002.

"Vegetable Logic," my first chapbook, received a Special Citation from the Austin Writers' League, 1996.
"What Poets Are Good For" received the Poetry Society of Texas award, 1998.
Winner of the D.H. Lawrence Scholarship in Poetry at the 2003 Taos Summer Writers' Conference.

"Vegetables and Other Relationships." Austin, Texas: Plain View Press, 2000.
Editor of 5 anthologies of poetry: "di-verse-city," (1997), "di-verse-city too" (1998), "tres di-verse-city" (1999), "2001: a di-verse-city odyssey," (2001), and "anniversary di-verse-city," (2002).
Individual poems have appeared in numerous publications and poetry anthologies, many of which are listed at my website:
http://swig.tripod.com