Scott Norman is an Illinois author and poet.
His novel Pincher Creek (2020) — the story of a grieving father who takes to the road and ends up in Blackfeet country at the edge of Glacier National Park — is being developed for the screen.
His novel The Vampire Collector was a finalist for the World's Best Story Competition in 2016 and is being developed as a six-episode limited series.
He is the author of the Poetry for… series: Poetry for Guys, Poetry for Kids, Poetry for Dogs, and Poetry for Chocolate.
When he is not writing, he builds tile mosaics, works as an insurance field inspector, and trains as a masters/senior powerlifter.
Scott Norman was born in Peoria, IL. After studying Film and Poetry at Webster University, Scott moved to the town of Bethel, AK, 90 miles from the Bering Sea. He lived in Alaska a total of 12 years before returning home to IL to tend to his ailing mother.
Scott has been to over 250 Alaskan Villages, crossed the Arctic Circle 20 times in one year, and has been so far out on the Aleutian Chain he was in the Hawaiian Time Zone.