Scott Heim

Scott Heim (born 1966) is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, "Mysterious Skin", was published in 1995.

Biography

Scott Heim was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1966. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1995, and Scott followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997.

Scott has won fellowships to the London Arts Board as their International Writer-in-Residence, and to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his adaptation of Mysterious Skin. He is also the author of a book of poems, Saved From Drowning (1993).

After living eleven years in New York, he relocated to Boston in 2002. Mysterious Skin was adapted for the stage, premiering in San Francisco; it was subsequently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki and Antidote Films. Scott's third novel is We Disappear (HarperCollins), published in February 2008.

Heim's fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in "The Village Voice", "Out", "The Advocate", "Interview", "Time Out New York", "Nerve", "Christopher Street", "The Minnesota Review", and many other periodicals.

Works

Novels

* "Mysterious Skin" (1995)
* "In Awe" (1997)
* "We Disappear" (2008)

Poetry

* "Saved From Drowning" (1993)

Contributor

* "Waves: An Anthology of New Gay Fiction" (1994)
* "Best American Gay Fiction" (1996)
* "Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories", edited by Patrick Merla (1996)
* "Personals: Dreams and Nightmares from the Lives of 20 Young Writers" (1998)
* "Best American Gay Fiction 3" (1998)
* "Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Erotic Memoirs" (1999)
* "Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium" (1999)
* "Something Inside: Coversations With Gay Fiction Writers" (1999)
* "The Hot Spots: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction" (2001)

Filmography

* "Mysterious Skin" (novel basis) (2004)

External links

* [http://heim.etherweave.com/ Official Site]
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