P. Scott Cunningham

P. Scott Cunningham is a poet, essayist, translator, and community organizer. He is the author of Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. Cunningham’s poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The Awl, Harvard Review, POETRY, The Rumpus, RHINO, Tupelo Quaterly, Monocle, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, PANK, and Columbia: a journal of art + literature. He is also the founder and director of O, Miami, a non-profit festival that celebrates Miami, FL through the lens of poetry, and the co-founder & executive editor of Jai-Alai Books, a regional publishing imprint. He has been named one of "20 Under 40 Emerging South Florida Leaders" by The Miami Herald and one of 51 “brilliant urbanites who are helping to build the cities of America's future" by Fast Company. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he lives in Miami with his wife, Christina, and his daughter, Ada.