Join the Florida Atlantic University Department of English as they welcome writer Rion Amilcar Scott for a reading from his latest book, The World Doesn’t Require You, and an engaging conversation about his writing process and his life as a writer. Scott is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The Rumpus, among others. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Kimbilio and the Colgate Writing Conference as well as a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. Presently he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.

This event is funded in part through a Florida Humanities Greater Good: Humanities in Academia Grant in partnership with Florida Atlantic University.