Scott Wiggerman is the author of Vegetables and Other Relationships (Plain View Press, 2000), as well as the editor of the di-verse-city series of poetry anthologies for the Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF, 1997-2002), an organization on which he served as a board member for eight years.  He is the recipient of the 2003 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference D.H. Lawrence Scholarship in Poetry.

Wiggerman’s poem “What Poets Are Good For” won the Poetry Society of Texas award in 1998.  His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Bay Windows, Gertrude, Midwest Poetry Review, Spillway, and the Paterson Literary Review.   In addition, his poems appear in several anthologies, including Will Work for Peace (Zeropanik Press, 1999), Southern Breezes (PoetWorks Press, 2000), The Cancer Poetry Project (Fairview Press, 2001), A Christmas Collection (July Literary Press, 2001), Affirming Flame (Evelyn Street Press, 2002) and The Fairest of Them All (Daniel & Daniel, 2003), and most recently, This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2004).

Wiggerman is host of the Queer Poets series of readings, now in its fifth year.  In addition, Wiggerman teaches “Poetry 101: The Way We Word” and “Poetry 201: Digging Deeper into the Poetic Toolbox,” two online poetry courses for UniversalClass.com. 

A longtime high school librarian for the Austin Independent School District, Wiggerman has been able to share his love of poetry by sponsoring several student poetry readings as part of his library’s programming and by conducting several workshops on poetry for his fellow librarians. 

Born in North Carolina, raised in Illinois, and schooled in Michigan, Wiggerman has lived in Texas since 1980.  He lives in Austin with his partner, David Meischen, with whom he has founded Dos Gatos Press, publisher of the Texas Poetry Calendar.

Webpage: http://swig.tripod.com