Scott Ruescher

Scott Ruescher’s first full-length book of poems, Waiting for the Light to Change, is due to be published by Prolific Press this spring. He won the 2016 Write Prize from Able Muse journal (for a poem set in South Boston and Cambridge), the 2015 Rebecca Lard Award from Poetry Quarterly (for a poem set at an intersection in Memphis), and, in both 2013 and 2014, the Erika Mumford Prize for poetry about travel and international culture from the New England Poetry Club (for poems set in Spain and Puerto Rico).