Carol J Scamman Non-Member Joined 2024

Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Mentor, Proofreader

Poetry Nonfiction

Carol J. Scamman lives in Nacogdoches, TX and shares heart and home with two Siberian Forest Cats. She’s a Massachusetts native who has lived in NH, PA, NY, LA, and TX. A retired academic librarian, she earned a BA from Grove City College (1975) and MLS from UAlbany (1976) and spent most of her career working in Ralph W. Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. Her poems have appeared in the anthology “Bearing Witness: Poetry for Troubled Times, Sligo Creek Publishing, 2026, “Trolley: the online journal of the NYS Writers Institute,” “Rainy Weather Days: a defiant literary journal,” and “rhizomag.” She published creative nonfiction in "The West That Was," eds. Joe Lansdale and Thomas Knowles, Wings Books, 1993. Her grandfather, Henry W. Scamman, a poet and farmer from Phillips, and Strong, ME, inspired her to write. She is mentoring poets in Africa. Ms. Scamman speaks French and Spanish, loves kayaking, canoeing, hiking, travel, and ethnic foods.

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