BA, English, Hiram College
CIA Senior Professor of Practice Scott Lax teaches writing, specializing in Screenwriting. He’s a recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference nonfiction scholarship, a Sewanee Writers Conference fiction fellowship, six journalism awards and four first-place film festival awards.
The Denver Post called Scott’s first novel The Year That Trembled one of the year’s “milestones in fiction.” The Boston Herald called the feature film that he produced, and which is based on his novel, “memorable and touching.” His recent two-act stage play version of that novel, 1970, ran for two weeks in the fall of 2023 at the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Of his second novel, Vengeance Follows, which Lax adapted as a screenplay, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Ron Powers wrote, “Mesmerizing and masterful … gets inside the head of a lethal sociopath while maintaining a loving evocation of a quiet Ohio town with a Richard Russo-like respect for the human soul.”
A professional drummer since the age of 13, Lax has performed with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bo Diddley, among many musicians locally and nationally.
For more about information, please visit scottlax.com.
