John Skoyles (poet)


John Skoyles is an American poet and writer.

Early years

John Skoyles was born in Flushing, New York, the son of Olga, a housewife, and Gerard Skoyles, an envelope salesman. He attended Mater Christi High School, graduating in 1967. He did his undergraduate work at Fairfield University in Connecticut, and earned an M.A. in English and an M. F. A. at the University of Iowa.

Career

John Skoyles has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College and Emerson College. He has also served as the Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from 1992-94 and again in 2007.
He has written eleven books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the poetry editor of . His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and others. He is a member of the Order of the Occult Hand and of the Writing Committee of the , Massachusetts. His latest book is Driven, a memoir in travelogue form.

Poetry

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;List of poems
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Autobiography2014

Novels

;Memoirs