John Skoyles

Who is John Skoyles?

John Skoyles is an American poet and writer.

Skoyles has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College and Emerson College. He directed the MFA Program at Warren Wilson from 1984 to 1992, and served as Chair of the Emerson College Writing, Literature and Publishing Department from 1994 to 2001. He was executive director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1992–94 and again from January to July 2007. He currently teaches at Emerson College and is the poetry editor of Ploughshares. The Permanent Press published his autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine, in 2014.

He was educated at Fairfield University and the University of Iowa.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and others.

More information about John Skoyles can be found on his website www.johnskoyles.org