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Professor Skoyles is the author of six books of poems: A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the SoulThe Situation; Inside Job, and Suddenly It's Evening: Selected Poems.  He has also published a collection of personal essays, Generous Strangers; a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education, an autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry and The Nut File, a collection of hybrid fiction/nonfiction. Driven, a memoir in the form of a travelogue, is forthcoming later in 2018.

Skoyles's work has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, and he has been awarded two individual fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the New York State and North Carolina Arts Councils.  He currently serves as the poetry editor of Ploughshares

Definition of the Soul book jacket Generous Strangers book jacket Inside Job book jacket Permanent Change book jacket Secret Frequencies book jacket The Situation book jacket

About

Education

M.F.A., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
B.A., Fairfield University

Areas of Expertise

  • Journalism
  • Poetry

Publications

A Little Faith

1981

Permanent Change

1991

Generous Strangers

1997

Definition of the Soul

1998

Secret Frequencies: A New York Education

2003

The Situation

2007

A Moveable Famine

2014

Suddenly It's Evening: Selected Poems

2016

Inside Job: New Poems

2016

The Nut File

2017

Awards & Honors

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1976

New York State Arts Council

1983

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1987

North Carolina State Arts Council

1989