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; Yes and No and That's Where You Come In. He has also published six books of prose: Generous Strangers; Secret Frequencies: A New York Education; A Moveable Famine; The Nut File; Driven and All the Question Marks. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation 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 lives in New York City.