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{{stub}} ==Life==Scott Cairns was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1954. As a youth he was raised a Baptist and became a Presbyterian during his college years. In 1998, he became Orthodox Christian, receiving, at his conversion, the name Isaac, after [[Isaac of Syria|St. Isaac of Syria]], whose ''Ascetical Homilies'' were key to Scott's embracing Orthodox Christianity.
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'''Scott Cairns''' (1954-) is an Orthodox a poet, memoirist, libretist, and essayistwho became an Orthodox Christian in his maturity. He serves has served as a [[reader]]/[[cantor|psalti]] at Saint St. Luke [[GOARCH|Greek Orthodox ]] Church (GOARCH) in Columbia, Missouriand is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He now lives in his hometown of Tacoma, where he WA, and is also a professor Professor of English and the director Director of the creative writing program MFA Creative Writing Program at the Seattle Pacific University of Missouri. He is a parishioner at Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Tacoma.
Scott's collegiate education began at Western Washington University, Bellingham, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977. He then attended Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia, from which he received a Master of Arts degree in 1979. In 1981, Scott was granted a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Then in 1990, he received his PhD from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
In his professional life, Scott has taught American literature and creative writing at Kansas State University, Westminster College, University of North Texas, Old Dominion University, and University of Missouri[[http://english.missouri.edu/people/profile.php?person=cairnss]]. Since retiring from his position as Currators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, he has become Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Seattle University.
He lives in University Place, Washington with his wife, Marcia Vanderlip.
== Bibliography ==
*''Correspondence with My Greeks'' (Slant Books, 2024)*''Lacunae'' (Paraclete Press, 2023)*''Anaphora'' (Paraclete Press, 2019)*''Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems'' (Paraclete Press, 2015)*''Idiot Psalms'' (Paraclete Press, 2014)*''The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain'' (Paraclete Press, expected in 2009, second printing 2010, third printing 2018)
*''Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life'' (Paraclete Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1557255259
reissued in 2014 as *''Endless Life: Poems of the Mystics''
*''Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage'' (HarperSanFrancisco, 2007) ISBN 978-0060843229
second edition, Paraclete Press, 2016, Greek edition, Parrisia Books, Athens, 2014, Romanian edition, Editura Doxologia, Iasi,2018.
*''Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected'' (Paraclete Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1557255037
*''Philokalia'' (Zoo Press, 2002) ISBN 978-0970817730
*''Finding the Broken Man'' (Window Press, 1982)
==Sources==*[[Wikipedia:Scott_Cairns]]*[http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-the-month/scott-cairns Scott Cairns] ==External linklinks==
*[http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-the-month/scott-cairns Biography from ''Image Journal'']
*[http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Cairns/e/B000APTL9Q/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 Amazon.com page]
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