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Scott Ezell is an American poet, musician, and multi-genre artist with a background in Asia and Indigenous peoples. He was based primarily in Taiwan from 1992 to 2004, and traveled widely in China, India, Japan, and elsewhere during this time. Since 2009 he has worked on a poetry and photography project documenting the effects of centralized state power, civil conflict, and destructive resource extraction on marginalized landscapes and communities in the China-Southeast Asia border zone. He is the author of A Far Corner, a narrative nonfiction account of three years he lived and worked with an Indigenous artist community on the Pacific Coast of Taiwan. He has released a dozen albums of original folk, ambient, and experimental music, and published poetry books including Petroglyph Americana, Carbon Rings, Swallowed by Machines, Shell Games & Ponzi Schemes, and The Front Lines of the War, which was also produced as a sound art and spoken word album. Scott Ezell is based in Chiapas, Mexico.
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