Rion Amilcar Scott

Rion performed on our virtual stage for Seriously Entertaining on August 18, 2020, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Those Were The Days.” Watch it below.

Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of The World Doesn’t Require You and Insurrections, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, PANK, and Confrontation, among others. He lives and writes in Maryland.

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