Scott Hightower

Scott Hightower is the author of five books of poetry in the U.S.: Imperative to Spare, Rebel Satori Press, 2023; Self-Evident, Barrow Street Press, 2012; Part of the Bargain, Copper Canyon Press, 2005; Natural Trouble, Fordham University Press, 2003; Tin Can Tourist, Fordham University Press, 2001; and two bilingual (Spanish-English) collections: Tartessos, Devenir (Madrid), 2019; Hontanares, Devenir (Madrid), 2012. Part of the Bargain won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. Contracted/ Contraído is also forthcoming from Elenvés Editoras (Granada). Hightower’s translations from Spanish have garnered him a prestigious Barnstone Translation Prize.