John Skoyles is a Professor at Emerson College in Boston and the Poetry Editor of Ploughshares. He is the author of two non-fiction books, Generous Strangers (1999), and Secret Fre...voir plusJohn Skoyles is a Professor at Emerson College in Boston and the Poetry Editor of Ploughshares. He is the author of two non-fiction books, Generous Strangers (1999), and Secret Frequencies: A New York Education (2006), and four books of poetry: A Little Faith, Permanent Change, Definition of the Soul, and The Situation. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as fellowships from the New York and North Carolina Arts Councils. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Warren Wilson College, where he directed the MFA program. He has also served as Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he had a been a Writing Fellow. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and Slate, and he had been a guest columnist for The Boston Globe.voir moins