Let Other Hounds

Scott LaMascus is a writer in Oklahoma City whose 2024 MFA is from Antioch University, Los Angeles. His debut collection, Let Other Hounds, was long-listed for the 2024 Idaho Prize for Poetry. His chapbook, The Edited Tongue: A Family's Year with ALS, has become a resource for the rare disease community, recognized by Rare Revolution magazine in the United Kingdom and adopted for ALS Awareness Month by Mercy Healthcare and the Meinders NeuroScience Institute, Oklahoma City. His poetry has appeared in Bracken, Altadena Review, Red Ogre Review, Pennine Platform, and others. He is director of the McBride Center for Public Humanities at Oklahoma Christian University and serves as a board member of the Federation of States Humanities Councils.