Scott Blackwood Adapts to Chicago
Austin's loss is Chicago's gain as the award-winning writer moves on to Chicago with a new novel set in the Deep Eddy neighborhood.
By Joe O'Connell, 2:47PM, Mon. Feb. 16, 2009
Scott Blackwood gained acclaim for his story collection In the Shadow of Our House, and the Southwest Texas State MFA grad and Dobie Paisano fellow follows it all with the Austin-set novel We Agreed to Meet Just Here. But the bad news is Blackwood isn't set here anymore.
He's now the director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he fittingly read from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award winning-book this past weekend.
He brags about almost making it through his first Chicago winter (the snow was falling and the wind swirling as I flew out Friday night). But he also admits to a longing to return to Austin. His novel is set in the Deep Eddy neighborhood; he'll have an Austin book party on March 13 at Eiler Park (next to Deep Eddy Pool). You can check out the first chapter here.
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