Scott Goetchius is a novelist and short story writer, an award winning essayist and a nationally known spoken-word artist. He competed in the 1997, ‘98, ‘99, and 2000 National Slam Poetry Championships, and in1999, he participated in the Individual Class Competition, presenting the top ten poets at the Nationals. That November, he appeared in the broadcast about slam poetry on ‘60 Minutes.’

   Since then his fiction and poetry have appeared in ‘The Village Voice,’ ‘The Underwood Review,’ ‘Vietnam Generation,’ and ‘Poeticas.’ An essay, Old Yarn, received the ‘George L. Knapp Award for Essay.’ His health articles were recently published in ‘PN Magazine’ (Paraplegia News), a nationally distributed monthly periodical.

   His novel, Salt, is now available at Amazon.com.