Scott Kinder-Pyle

Scott Kinder-Pyle loiters along the Spokane River, where, as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Eastern Washington, Spokane Community College and Gonzaga University, he’s reduced to nine poetic fingers. There are framed pieces of paper on the walls of Scott’s study from Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1988), from Columbia Theological Seminary (DMin, 2008) and from Eastern Washington University’s MFA in Creative Writing (MFA, 2013). Of course this last piece of paper is the most significant as it helped this ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) to survive what he hopes will be, in the final analysis, his ‘mid-life crisis.’ We’ll see… In addition to writing and occasionally publishing some verse in Sojourners, the Santa Clara Review and Redactions among others, Scott ventures forth into his 30th year of marriage to Sheryl, whom he met at Princeton, and with whom he celebrates two children and two dogs.