John Skoyles

John Skoyles has published seven books of poems, most recently, Yes & No. His books of prose include A Moveable Famine, The Nut File, and Driven.  He has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College (where he directed the MFA program) and Emerson College. He has also served as the Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic, among others. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as fellowships from the New York and North Carolina Arts Councils. He lives in New York City.