robert p. baird
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- The Spiritual Guide
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In the fall of 2010 I finished a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where I wrote a dissertation on Dante, taught classes on literature and religion, and completed a fellowship at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
Paulist Press recently published my translation of Miguel de Molinos's Spiritual Guide, the founding text of the 17th-century heresy known as Quietism.
For four years I ran digital emunction, a group blog that trafficked heavily in poetry and politics and lightly in just about everything else.
Photography is a favorite avocation. I keep a portfolio of photos here.
Still curious? Check my CV or better yet, send me an email.
I'm a writer and sometime editor living in Seattle.
My fiction has been published in Narrative and BRAND, my poems have been published in Poetry and the Cultural Society, and my essays and reviews have been published in Slate, Bookforum, n+1, the New York Observer, and Chicago Review. I keep a running list of my writing here.
I am currently at work on a novel about an anthropologist in South America, an excerpt of which was published in Narrative Magazine. Narrative named me one of their best new writers of 2010 and also published a long reported article I wrote about the legacy of the Bolivian dictatorships of the 1970s.
In 2007-8 I was editor of Chicago Review, a literary quasi-quarterly. Earlier I'd done stints as managing editor and poetry staffer; later I contributed as editor-at-large.