Bio and Contact

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Here's the third-person-boring bio one needs on one's page. If you suddenly found out last night that you're introducing me for something, here's what you need:

The author of seven books of nonfiction including A Delicious Country (2019), Scott Huler has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times; such magazines as Esquire, Backpacker, Fortune, and ESPN; and such websites as Slate and Salon. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books have been translated into five languages. You can find his Muckrack page here.

He was a 2002-2003 Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan, 2011 Piedmont Laureate in creative nonfiction, and a 2014-2015 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. His work was cited as notable sportswriting of 1991 in Best American Sportswriting of 1992. Awards he has won include Public Media Journalists Association Awards, Tennessee AP Broadcasters Association Awards, a 2020 CASE Circle of Excellence Award, and multiple 2023 and 2024 CASE Best of District awards. A piece he wrote for Esquire was chosen a Longreads Best of 2023 Number 1 Stories. He won a 2024 Case Circle of Excellence Award for a story about the history of the Duke Blue Devil in Duke Magazine and a 2024 SCONC Award from the Science Communicators of North Carolina for a story about the Duke herbarium.

His book A Delicious Country was a finalist for the 2025 NC Reads program.

He currently works as the senior writer at Duke Magazine and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

Ok, other stuff. They say asking someone to watch your TEDx talk is the 21st-century equivalent of asking someone to read your screenplay. If that sounds like the type of thing you'd like to do, directly to the right is a TEDx talk I gave in Nashville in 2013. I loved living in Nashville -- I helped start a daily newspaper there and I spent two happy years at WPLN, the National Public Radio member station there. So it was nice to be invited back to give this TEDx talk about infrastructure, engineers, and taxes. Spoiler alert: it turns out I'm in favor of all three.

The piece to the left, written for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, is nothing more than a post-fellowship profile, yet somehow it just seems to do a very nice job of getting at what I like to think i am trying to do as a writer. It's the profile I'd soonest direct you to if you want to know how I do my work. And if you're just aching to see more stuff about Huler, you might try the following. Here is a link to a book show, where I discuss On the Grid, my book about infrastructure. Here's me being a talking head about Odysseus, subject of my book No-Man's Lands, and here's another book show where I talk about No-Man's Lands.

And if you think a TEDx Talk is pointy-headed, directly to the left is nothing less than an actual hour of me talking on C-Span's BookTV. And here's another one, from the Virginia Festival of the Book, a panel discussion about science and innovation books for which I discussed Defining the Wind. For further video discussions of my books, NCBookwatch is a North Carolina public television show that has been very generous to me. Here's a link to my appearance about my most recent book, A Delicious Country. Here's a link to a Bookwatch appearance for No-Man's Lands, my book about retracing Homer's the Odyssey, and here's one forOn the Grid, my book about infrastructure.

Last thing. When I was appointed Piedmont Laureate for 2011, I was part of a video the News & Observer did about creative types in the region. If you're dying to hear me blather on about myself and how I do what I do, here's your chance. If nothing else you get a glimpse of my awesome writing shed.

If you want to read what others have written about my work on the Lawson Trek, try here. And here's a piece about me in Our State Magazine, though I think reading my own work in Our State is more fun. For me, anyway.