Scott Bessenecker

Scott A. Bessenecker (1963 - )

Scott was born in Iowa and attended Iowa State University where he graduated in Business Administration after a failed attempt at an Engineering degree. Shortly after his graduation in 1985, Scott began working for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a faith-based university student organization. It was there that he grew in his love for the world, for the excluded, and for university students. “Those of us from well-resourced backgrounds need to be in relationship with the excluded,” Scott says, “The insulation between classes is suffocating us and preventing us from learning from and contributing to one another.”

Like many writers, Scott hates writing but loves having written. He is author of four non-fiction books and served as editor for two others. He is currently seeking an agent for his first work of fiction, Nocturn, a post-apocalyptic story about the meek inheriting the earth. He lives in Madison, WI with his watercolor artist wife, Janine. They have three children, Hannah, Philip and Laura, and over the years have had a variety of people living in their home and sharing life together.

In his day job Scott helps to plunge more than 2,000 university students a year into some of the most beautiful and broken places on earth to learn from and serve others.