Scott Gould is Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities. His poetry, fiction and nonfiction have been published in magazines and anthologies including Kenyon Review, Kansas Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New Stories From the South, and New Southern Harmonies, among others. Three of his short stories were included in Hub City's New Southern Harmonies, which received a 1999 IPPY Award from Independent Publisher magazine.

Gould has won awards for his fiction, poetry, screenwriting and teaching, including a South Carolina Arts Literary Fellowship, and a Literature Fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. He has published a chapbook of poems, Jukebox Love.

A native of Kingstree, S.C., Gould has also lived in Lexington, Spartanburg, and Greenville. He is a graduate of Wofford College and the University of South Carolina. He enjoys fly fishing and spending time with his wife and their two children.