John Skoyles

John Skoyles is the author of seven books of poems, A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul; The Situation; Suddenly It's Evening: Selected Poems; Inside Job: New Poems, and Yes and No. He has also published five books of prose: Generous Strangers; Secret Frequencies: A New York Education, A Moveable Famine, The Nut File and Driven. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and others.

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 is the poetry editor of Ploughshares.