Scott Pearson knew he wanted to be a writer by the time he was in the seventh grade in 1977. He immediately started submitting to magazines, sending off a bunch of stories that were just as bad as you can imagine first efforts would be. After many high school writing classes and getting a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing, he was first published in 1987 with “The Mailbox,” a Minnesota Monthly Tamarack Award winner about an elderly farming couple. In the decades since, he has published a smattering of humor, poetry, short stories, reviews, and nonfiction, such as The Mosquito Book, which he coauthored with Scott Anderson and Tony Dierckins. His not-entirely-serious mystery story, “Out of the Jacuzzi, Into the Sauna,” appeared in the anthology Resort to Murder. Scott has had poetry published in the online magazines Strange Horizons and Down in the Cellar, as well as in various print magazines and anthologies. His science fiction story “Finders Keepers” appeared in the anthology Full Throttle Space Tales #3: Space Grunts.

A Star Trek fan for over thirty-five years, Scott has had three Trek stories published by Simon & Schuster: “Full Circle” in Strange New Worlds VII, “Terra Tonight” in Strange New Worlds 9, and “Among the Clouds” in The Sky’s the Limit. His Star Trek novella Honor in the Night will be published in the 2010 anthology Myriad Universes: Shattered Light. He has also written his first article for the official Star Trek magazine and hopes that it will prove to be the first of many.

Scott makes his living as an editor for Zenith Press, a military history publisher in Minneapolis, and X-comm, a regional history publisher in Duluth. He has edited such books as Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and Will to Murder: The True Story Behind the Crimes & Trials Surrounding the Glensheen Killings, which was featured on Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice series on Court TV. He also writes a monthly book review for Author online magazine. Scott lives near the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, fabled in story and song, in personable St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Ella.

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