CONTACT

105 East 3rd Street, Apt. 4
Marshfield, WI 54449
(715) 207-0248

myspace.com/troyschoultz

BIO

Troy Schoultz's work has appeared in The Seattle Review, Rattle, Fish Drum, Slipstream, and several others in the U.S. and U.K. His column about Wisconsin small city life “Hub City Living” appears weekly in the Marshfield News-Herald.

Troy is a freelance writer, community theatre actor, security officer and sometimes substitute teacher. He has twice been a guest panelist for the Creative Writing Festival at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. His inspirations include thunderstorms, garage rock, forgotten cemeteries, abandoned factory buildings and farmhouses, found objects, old men crying in taverns before noon, the number five, and Wisconsin folklore.

"Troy Schoultz's poetry powerfully captures the tragedy and pathos of Midwestern life. His naturalistic world is as dark as Sherwood Anderson's woods. The poet inhabits a space where 'death stalked rural Wisconsin like a wounded suitor.' The poet, through powerful images, is able to make the reader face mortality. Once we face our fragility, we begin to feel compassion, to feel that we can find our way through. Like Robert Frost, truth can guide us out of the woods and "into the clearing," stated Doug Flaherty, Wisconsin Commended Poet and author of Good Thief Come Home.

BOOKINGS

2008