Scott Cheshire

Scott led a Summer Writing Workshop for SpeakTogether at Talent Unlimited High School on July 17, 2017, and a College Readiness after-school workshop for SpeakTogether at Union Settlement in East Harlem on December 13, 2017. Scott also performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at New Directions Secondary School in The Bronx, New York, on December 17, 2017, speaking on the theme, “You Only Live Once.”

Scott Chesire is the author of the novel High as the Horses’ Bridles, a Best Book of 2014 pick at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Salon, and Electric Literature. His work has been published in AGNI, Catapult, Electric Literature, Guernica, Harper’s, One Story, and the Picador Book of Men.

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