Scott Edward Anderson

Scott Edward Anderson is an award-winning poet, memoirist, essayist, and translator. Author of Wine-Dark Sea: New & Selected Poems & Translations (2022), Azorean Suite/Suite Açoriana (2020), the Nautilus Award-winning Dwelling: an ecopoem (2018), and two books of non-fiction, including Falling Up: A Memoir of Second Chances (2019) and Walks in Nature’s Empire (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, selected by Thomas Lux. He is currently the Poet Laureate of the Ryan Observatory at Muddy Run and divides his time between the Berkshires and his ancestral island of São Miguel in the Azores. You can find him on social media @greenskeptic and through his website scottedwardanderson.com.

Love and Patience on Mount Pico

“Are you sure this is a road?” Samantha asked as the black basalt paving gave way to dark, red dirt, and the deep-green grass seemed to grow closer and closer to our rental car.
“It’s supposed to be the fastest way,” I answered. “According to Google Maps…”
Then I realized I’d lost the cell signal and my iPhone was navigating blind.
Return to Author Index