Scott Ruescher

Scott Ruescher’s book of poems, Waiting for the Light to Change, published by Prolific Press in May 2017, consists entirely of poems of place. He won the 2016 Write Prize from Able Muse for a poem set in South Boston and Cambridge, the 2015 Rebecca Lard Award from Poetry Quarterly for a poem set at an intersection in Memphis, and, in both 2013 and 2014, the Erika Mumford Prize for poetry about travel and international culture from the New England Poetry Club, for poems set in Spain and Puerto Rico. He administers the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and teaches English in the Boston University Prison Education Program.