The Last Miles

by J. D. Scrimgeour

J. D. Scrimgeour's most recent book is THE LAST MILES, a collection of poetry published by Fine Tooth Press in September 2005.

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His essay, "Living the Outfield," was the recipient of the Best Writing on Baseball Award sponsored by Creative Nonfiction magazine and will appear in the magazine's special issue, "The Anatomy of Baseball," in 2006.

Scrimgeour is also the recipient of the 2005 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction for Themes For English B, essays from which have appeared in Boston Globe Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Thought & Action.

His first book was SPIN MOVES: A BASKETBALL MEMOIR (Pecan Grove Press, 2000), about which the Boston Globe wrote, "SPIN MOVES is basketball as a literary musical, a world that has its own soundtrack (with varied time signatures) as well as its own language."

His poetry and critical writing have appeared in Poetry, Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Mid-American Review, Auto/Biography Studies, Crab Orchard Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.

J. D. lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, fiction writer Eileen FitzGerald, and their two sons, and is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Salem State College.