Scott Cairns
Librettist, essayist, translator, and poet, Scott Cairns is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at University of Missouri, where he directed The Center for Literary Arts and the creative writing program. He now directs the low-residency MFA Program at Seattle Pacific University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He has blogged for the Religion Section of The Huffington Post. His recent books include Lacunae (2023), Anaphora (2019), Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems (2015), and Idiot Psalms (2014), and he has this month completed a new manuscript, Lacunae: New Poems. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.