About the Author
Scott Mitchel May is a writer living in Madison, WI. His short fiction/essays have been published in many literary journals including The Maryland Literary Review, HAD, W&S, Maudlin House, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters, and Trampset. He was the winner of the 2019 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute Poem or Page Competition in the category of literary fiction, and his unpublished novel, Bridgeport Nowhere, was shortlisted for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers’ Project Literary Award. His debut novel, Breakneck: or, it happened once in America, was published in late April 2023. His second novel Awful People is coming in early 2024 from Death of Print Books. He holds a GED from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a BS in English Literature from Edgewood College.