Scott Dorsch
Fiction writer in Western Michigan.
About Scott
Scott Dorsch is a writer based in Muskegon, MI where he works as a professional coffee roaster. His work has appeared in The Midwestern Gothic, Dunes Review, Everything Change Vol. III, and translated in Nowa Fantastyka. He served as the fiction editor for Fugue Literary Journal while completing an MFA Creative Writing at the University of Idaho. Beyond writing, Scott is a gardener and certified wildlife tracker with a rock-climbing obsession. He is currently at work on his first novel and short story collection.
Publications
Red/Purple/White
Dunes Review, Spring 2021
Driftless
Everything Change, Volume III
“Rai Olmstead stepped out onto the back porch that evening to bury his wife during a lull. The air seemed still, stagnant, though still blowing forty knots out of the west, pulling groans from the last of the gaunt pines and cedars lining the property. The sun, difficult to see, cast lazy pinks and opals on the horizon. A coffee can full of nails held the door…”
Holes or Tunnels
Midwestern Gothic, Summer 2018
“The lake here has no bottom. There’s a whale-sized drain right in the middle with a nose and tail that keep stretching further out by the day. Dad says it looks like a blue-black buckeye from space. When boats sink from the big storms, the search party drinks a beer. No one ever comes back from that, they’d say for the paper…”
Awards
2021
Summer Fishtrap
Fellow
Wallowa, OR
2020
Everything Change
Contest Finalist
ASU Imagination & Climate Futures Initiative
2021
Good HartÂ
Artist Residency
Good Hart, MI
2019
Writing in the Wild
Fellowship
University of Idaho
2018
VandeZande
Fiction Award
Northern Michigan University
2018
Legler Memorial
Poetry Prize
Northern Michigan University