John Skoyles

John Skoyles (born 1949, Flushing, New York) is an American poet, memoirist, novelist, and essayist with an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has published seven books of poetry, including A Little Faith, Permanent Change, Definition of the Soul, The Situation, Inside Job, Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems, and Yes and No, all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press, as well as prose works such as the memoir Secret Frequencies: A New York Education, the essay collection Generous Strangers, and the autobiographical novel A Moveable Famine. He teaches at Emerson College, serves as poetry editor of Ploughshares magazine, and is chairman of the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][5]