Eric O. Scott, Author at The Wild Hunt

Eric O. Scott

Eric O. Scott was raised by witches. He writes about his life as a second-generation Pagan, pilgrimage, pop culture, and politics. He is the Pagan Perspectives Editor for The Wild Hunt and a contributing editor for Killing the Buddha. His first novel, The Lives of the Apostates, was published in 2013 by Moon Books. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and an PhD in English from the University of Missouri - Columbia. His middle name is not "Odin."

2020 election

Editorial: Life Goes On (Even After November)

By Eric O. Scott | October 25, 2020

Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott thinks about the future – the challenges that will still exist regardless of who wins the US presidential election.

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Column: The Body in Browns Canyon

By Eric O. Scott | October 9, 2020

As his body strains to complete a tough hike through Brown Canyon National Monument, Eric O. Scott contemplates the unit of mind and body.

Arts & Culture

A new “Beowulf” confronts misogyny in the text – and its translators

By Eric O. Scott | September 27, 2020

Eric O. Scott reviews the new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley, which features modern slang and a focus on the poem’s relationship to the women within it.

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Column: The Ashes of the Old

By Eric O. Scott | September 11, 2020

As wildfires rage across the western United States, Eric O. Scott ponders the role of prayer, magick, and circular time in finding a way out of this current destructive stage of the world.

Anne Carson

Column: The Madness of Herakles

By Eric O. Scott | August 30, 2020

Eric O. Scott considers the questions about the nature of the gods raised in Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’s play “Herakles.”