Scott Standley is a musician, screenwriter, app developer, art critic and sound editor in Chicago, Illinois. His earliest creative pursuit was and is making music as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, but he has continued to expand into other mediums. A bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and writing from the University of Texas in 2009 started Scott’s path as a writer which lead to works in music, fiction, articles and other media.

I grew up in Austin attending Southern Baptist churches. Both parents are scientists who rejected their parents’ strict religious interpretations, so I was lucky to have that diversity and freedom of thought. I went down the rabbit hole in high school after learning about Gnostic Christianity. Since then, my spiritual appetite has expanded through many philosophy and religious studies courses and the odd, cherished discussion on a porch. Lately, I strangely find myself taking spiritual and cosmological cues from writers like Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke.