Scott Edward Anderson

Scott Edward Anderson is an award-winning poet, memoirist, essayist, and translator. He is the author of Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations (Shanti Arts, 20220, Azorean Suite: A poem of the moment/Suite Açoriana: Um poema do momento (Letras Lavadas, 2020), Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (Homebound Publications, 2019), which recently received the 1st Literary Award of Letras Lavadas in conjunction with PEN Açores, the Nautilus Award‑winning Dwelling: an ecopoem (Shanti Arts, 2018), Fallow Field (Aldrich Press, 2013), and Walks in Nature’s Empire (The Countryman Press, 1995).

He has been a Concordia Fellow at Millay Arts and received the Letras Levadas/PEN Açores Award, the Nebraska Review Award, and the Larry Aldrich Emerging Poets Award. He is currently the Poet Laureate for the Ryan Observatory at Muddy Run and divides his time between the Berkshires and São Miguel Island in the Azores. He has translated the work of Fernando Pessoa, Luís Filipe Sarmento, Sophia de Mello Andresen, Ângela de Almeida, Leonor Sampaio Silva, and Vitorino Nemésio. Habitar: um ecopoema, Margarida Vale de Gato’s translation of his book Dwelling, was published in September 2022 by Poética Edições in Lisbon. You can learn more about him at scottedwardanderson.com and on various social media platforms @greenskeptic