Scott Cairns is Curators’ Professor of English Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poetry and essays have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. His prose books, Short Trip to the Edge and The End of Suffering appeared in multiple printings and in Greek and Romanian translations. His recent books include Lacunae (2023), Anaphora (2019), Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems (2015). Most recently, his Correspondence with My Greeks appeared in 2024, and his forthcoming Makários: New Poems, will be published by Slant Books in 2026. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.