J. Scott Brownlee is a poet from Llano, Texas. His work appears widely and includes the chapbooks HIGHWAY OR BELIEF (2013 Button Poetry Prize), ASCENSION (2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Prize), and ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAST OLD CAMP MEETING IN LLANO COUNTY (Tree Light Books Prize). His first full-length collection, REQUIEM FOR USED IGNITION CAP, was a finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series and Writers' League of Texas Book Award, a Foreword Reviews "Best Poetry of Winter 2016" title, and selected by C. Dale Young as the winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize. It also won the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. Brownlee is a founding member of The Localists, a literary collective that emphasizes place-based writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working class. He teaches for Brooklyn Poets as a core faculty member and is a former Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at NYU, where he earned his MFA. Brownlee currently lives in Austin.