RACHEL SCOTT

     Rachel Scott is a writer, artist, physician, who lives in northern Minnesota with her husband, Jerry, and 14 sled dogs. Please feel free to EMAIL HER with questions and feedback about this site.        
     Writing credits include Muscle & Blood, E.P. Dutton, c. 1974, a muckraking book about the politics of occupational medicine. M&B was nominated for a National Book Award, was picked by the American Library Association as one of 100 "notable books of the year" and was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection. She has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post Magazine. She has a degree in journalism from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, and earned her living for ten years as a freelance writer. She has also worked for The Winston-Salem Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and Environmental Action Magazine, and written freelance stories for the Washington Post and Washington Star, and WRC-TV. She has been published on the New York Times Op Ed page. She was a Washington Correspondent for Pacifica Radio.
     Art & Crafts interests include wood engraving, wood carving, artistamps, paper marbling, papermaking, photography, and silversmithing. She studied art courses during her childhood at the Kansas City Art Institute, at Kansas State University and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. She studied silver working at David's Joyaria in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and wood carving in Bethel, Alaska with Ted Parker. More recently, she studied wood engraving from Jim Horton and marbling from R.P. Hale, at the Augusta Heritage Center, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia.
     Printing: Interest in letterpress printing grew out of a desire to print linocuts and wood engravings. She learned typesetting in journalism school, and printing and papermaking from her father, Duane Scott, proprietor of the Scott Free Press.
     Medicine: currently practicing as a Family Practice Physician in Mt. Iron, Minnesota. Board Certified, Diplomate, American Board of Family Practice. Family Practice Residency at Hennepin County, Minneapolis, MN, and Internship  in Family Practice at the University of Iowa, and combined Internship in Occupational Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, Iowa.