Scott Krieger is a poet and novelist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His work explores how memory, weather, and invention braid through the human condition—how language itself behaves like a kind of architecture, shaping the ideas it shelters. Certain Lightnings gathers poems written from that charged space between making and being made.

He is also the author of the novel Illyrian Fugue, a historical fiction told in poetic fragments that shapes its tale from emotional association and juxtaposition. Set at the beginnings of the modern mind, it reaches forward to our present as an uncertain future.

Krieger’s poems are rooted in the Great Lakes region, where he is active in the local arts community through the Grand River Poetry Collective and its publishing imprint, Grand River Poetry Press. 

A builder by trade and temperament, he can often be found studying the quiet persistence of things.