Scott Frey is a poet and educator who grew up in Western Pennsylvania and lives in Granby, CT. His book, Heavy Metal Nursing, won the 2023 Tampa Review Prize for poetry and will be published in the Fall of 2024.


His work has been featured in journals such as Passages North, Bellevue Literary Review, and The Missouri Review, where he was awarded the 2023 Perkoff Prize for poetry. His hybrid chapbook, Night Nurses, was a winner in the Spring 2023 Black River Chapbook competition and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in the Spring of 2025.

He teaches English at Pine Meadow Academy in Windsor Locks, CT. He and his wife also run a non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, whose mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses improve their quality of life.