Sam Keck Scott

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Sam Keck Scott is a freelance writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, Popular Science, Orion, Hakai, Longreads, Smithsonian Magazine, Terrain.org, Camas, and others. Sam was recently awarded a 2024 Pushcart Prize for his essay “Dreaming of Water with Tiger Salamanders,” which was originally published by Longreads. That same essay was also listed as “Notable” in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023. Sam has also been an author for the National Geographic Society, a Writing By Writers Fellow, the co-author of the children’s book, Sip the Straw, and the winner of the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction. In addition to writing, Sam is a wildlife biologist, a conservationist, and an avid adventurer. When not living out of his truck or a hotel room for work—or exploring some far-flung land or sea—he calls Northern California home. Sam earned his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Southern New Hampshire University, where he was awarded the Lynn Safford Memorial Prize for best nonfiction thesis.