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Scott Gould

Author

Scott Gould

Scott Gould is the author of seven books, including Peace Like a River and Beneath a Fallen Sky, both from Regal House Publishing. His novel, The Hammerhead Chronicles, won the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, and Things That Crash, Things That Fly, was awarded a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award, and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Kenyon Review, Eclectica, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, New Ohio Review, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He was on the creative writing faculty at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities for 21 years. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina. 

Books

Featured Work

Beneath a Fallen Sky

Beneath a Fallen Sky

Beneath a Fallen Sky (October 2026). Set in northeast Alabama during the passage of Halley’s Comet in 1910, this novel follows four ordinary people who believe the world may be ending. As fear, faith, and desperation reshape their lives over four extraordinary days, Scott Gould crafts a richly atmospheric historical novel about hope, redemption, and […]

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