John Skoyles

John Skoyles has published six books of poems, A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul; The Situation; Inside Job and Suddenly It’s Summer: Selected Poems, all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press.  His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, Slate, Yale Review and The Poetry Anthology, 1912–2002, among others. He is also the author of two books of nonfiction, Generous Strangers, a collection of personal essays, several of which were broadcast on public radio; and a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education. His awards include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as fellowships from the New York and North Carolina Arts Councils. In 2003, he became a member of the Order of the Occult Hand while reviewing books for the Associated Press. He has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Warren Wilson College, where he directed the MFA program. He is currently Professor in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department of Emerson College, and the poetry editor of Ploughshares. He is also a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry, was published by The Permanent Press in 2014.  Quale Press  published The Nut File, a fiction/nonfiction hybrid in 2017. Driven, a memoir in travelogue form, was published in 2019. His seventh book of poems, Yes and Now, will be published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 2021.