An inspired truant from any number of poetical schools.
Scott Coffel received his MFA from Iowa Writers Workshop and directs the Hanson Center for Technical Communication, University of Iowa College of Engineering. He won the 2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize; his poems appear in Salmagundi, Ploughshares, Paris Review, Antioch Review, The American Scholar, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and Barrow Street.
