Scott Cairns, GPC 2006-2007
Scott
Cairns is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at University
of Missouri. His poetry collections include Compass
of Affection: Poems New & Selected, Philokalia, Recovered
Body, Figures for
the Ghost, The
Translation of Babel, and The
Theology of Doubt. Recent poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Spiritus, Poetry, and Image. His work has
also appeared in several annual editions of Best
American Spiritual Writing. His most recent books are his spiritual
memoir, Short Trip to the Edge
(HarperSanFrancisco, 2007) and Love’s
Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life. Paraclete Press published
his book-length essay, The End
of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain, in November 2009. He also
co-authored God with Us: Rediscovering
the Meaning of Christmas (Paraclete Press, 2007) and contributed his essay,
“A Troubled and Troubling Mirror: On Poetry” to editor Emilie Griffin’s Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith
Reflect on their Art. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and was
recently named the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in English.
Additional
Links:
Bio and numerous poems, poetryfoundation.com.