Scott Kauffman

My writing career began in Mrs. Baer's eighth-grade English class when, whoops, I failed to read the book due to a conflict of priorities. Mrs. Baer required the report to be written in-class so an exercise of imagination was necessary. Snagged a B on the report, which was better than the C received on my last report when I actually read the book, The Old Man and the Sea. Go figure. Thus began my life-long apprenticeship as a teller of tales and, some would suggest, as a lawyer as well, but they would be cynics, a race who Oscar Wilde once warned us knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. My novel Revenants, the Odyssey Home, is scheduled for release on December 28, 2015, by Moonshine Cove Publishing, and I am the author of the previously released In Deepest Consequences. I am a recipient of the 2011 Mighty River Short Story Contest and the 2010 Hackney Literary Award. My short fiction has appeared in Big Muddy, Adelaide Magazine, and Lascaux Review. I am now at work on two novel manuscripts and a collection of short stories. I am an attorney in Irvine, California, where my practice focuses upon white-collar crime and tax litigation with my clients providing me endless story fodder. I graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and in the upper ten percent of my class from the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where I was a member of the Environmental Law Review and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Conflict of Laws.