Scott Pruden wrote his first stories for Out & About in the summer of 1989 while home from college at the University of South Carolina. He went on to work as a reporter, copy editor and news editor for newspapers in South Carolina, Arizona and Pennsylvania, resuming work for O&A in 2004 after becoming a full-time freelance writer. Though he’s a South Carolina native and lives and works in West Chester, Pa., he considers Delaware his “second home state.” His satirical science fiction novel Immaculate Deception was published by Codorus Press in 2010 and was a Pushcart Prize nominee. He's busy working on his second novel.