Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1971. His poems have been published in many magazines, including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and The Paris Review. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Jill Marquis.   Honors Worklife Bibliography

Honors

Poetry Society of America, Lyric Poetry Award, 2007
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Morrison Scholar 2005, Admissions Board, 2006
Sewanee Writers Conference, Tennessee Williams Scholarship, 2005
William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Society, Marble Faun Poetry Award, 2005
University of Montana, Merriam/Frontier Award for Outstanding Graduate Writing 1995
Pushcart Prize nominations in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004

Work Life

2009
Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington, George Washington University
Writer-in-Residence, Richard Hugo House
Fishtrap summer workshop, Fishtrap, Oregon
Summer Youth Poetry, Idyllwild Summer Program
English Faculty, University Prep

California
Chair, Creative Writing, Idyllwild Arts Academy

New Orleans
Grant Writer and Website Manager, New Orleans Museum of Art
Poetry Teacher, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Tulane University, New Orleans, Adjunct Creative Writing Instructor
University of New Orleans. Adjunct Instructor

Montana
University of Montana. Instructor
Copy Editor, Montana Kaimin
Dishwasher, Yellowstone National Park

Kansas
Student Body President, Kansas State University
Columnist, Kansas State Collegian
Sweeper and Spot Welder, Delta Designs, Topeka
Refreshment Stand and Question Booth, Topeka Zoological Gardens

Bibliography

Book
Mister Skylight. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2009. (poems)

Chapbooks
Field Recordings. Seattle: Lit Rag Press, 2003. (poems)
L’Allegro and Il Penseroso. Aurora, NY: Wells College Book Arts Center, 2001. (poems)
Tool Kit. University of Montana Merriam/Frontier Prize, 1996. (poems)

Anthologies
Intersection/New Orleans.New Orleans: Press Street, 2006. 47. A collaboration between 25 New Orleans writers and visual artists.

Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans. Nolafugees Press, New Orleans, 2008.

Rules of Thumb: 73 authors reveal their fiction writing fixations. Ed. Michael Martone and Susan Neville. Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2006. 221-224. An catalog of odd advice.

Poems in Magazines
“Memory Loss.” American Poetry Review forthcoming.
“West Coast” and “Readership Survey” Narrative Winter 2009.
“And the Yellow Bones of the Parking Lot” City Arts Seattle (September 2008).
“October.” Paris Review 186 (Fall 2008).
“Like Night Catching Jackrabbits in Barbed Wire.” American Poetry Review 37.2 (2008).
“What I Did During the War.” Threepenny Review 112 (Winter 2007).
“Los Angeles Quickmap.” Cincinnati Review 5.1 (Fall 2008).
“The Migration.” Mississippi Review: The Prose Poem Issue 13.1 (2007): 56.
“Little Song #2/Pequeña Cancón # 2.” El Nacional (Caracas, Venezuela) 23 June 2007:
Literario 9.
“The Gallant Rider and Help in Seven Languages Written on the Skeleton Coast.” Practice:
New Writing and Art 2 (2007): 84-89.
“Topeka High School Homecoming Bonfire.” The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII.4 (2007): 565.
“All Aboard.” Naked Punch (UK) 8 (2007): 43.
“Louisiana California.” The Bedazzler(Wave Books Showcase). Summer 2006. 17 September
07. <http://www.wavepoetry.com/bedazzler/2>.
“Third Thought.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 5 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Ruler of My Heart.” Ploughshares guest ed. Kevin Young 32.1 (2006): 139.
“Season Finale.” New Orleans Review 31.2 (2006): 194-95
“Bela.” Blackbird 5.1 (Spring 2006). 17 September 07.
<http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n1/poetry/skoog_e/bela.htm>.
“Third Thought.” NO: a journal of the arts 5 (2006): 86.
“My Life with Louis Armstrong,” The Literary Review (2006): 13-14.
“Test Plate Displaying 12 DifferentPatterns, circa 1830, Eduard Honoré Manufactory.”
Willow Springs 56 (2005): 26-27.
“The Carolers and Home at Thirty. ” Poetry  December 2004: 197-198.
“Horror Show.” The Canary 3 (2004): 39.
“Wild Hog in Cemetery.” The New Republic July 24, 2004: 44.
“Cabrera Infante and Crawlstroke.” Fourteen Hills 10.1(2004):113-118.
“Holiday Radio Show.” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 32.
“Quadrants in the French Window.” Forklift, Ohio 12 (2003): 32.
“Lamp.” Poet Lore 98.3/4 (2003): 30.
“Landing.” Laurel Review 37.2 (2003): 71.
“Pilgrim: An Ode.” NO: A Journal of the Arts 1 (Winter 2003): 184-188.
“Eightball.” Hogtown Creek Review Fall 2002: 57.
“Black Nazi.” The Marlboro Review 13 (Winter/Spring 2002): 63.
“Everything, Everything is Broken.” Indiana Review 24.2 (2002): 28.
“Station Break.” Fox Cry Review 28 (2002): 11-12.
“Next Novel (Advance Reading Copy).” Fox Cry Review 28 (2002): 13-14.
“Après-Ski.” Fine Madness 27 (2001): 45.
“Honeycomb.” New Orleans Review 27.2 (2001): 76.
“Flamingos.” New Orleans Review 27.2 (2001): 77.
“Three Poems.” Poem 86 (2001): 6-11.
“Two Poems.” Laurel Review 34.1 (2000): 68-70.
“Tumbling Dice.” Marlboro Review 10 (Summer/Fall2000): 60-61.
“Second Line.” New Orleans Review 25.4 (Winter 1999/2000): 86.
“Autobiographical.” Slate 19 May 99. 17 September 07<http://www.slate.com/id/28532/>.
“The Crowd Will Be Televised.” Lynx Eye V.4 (1998): 110.
“Crowd Local No. 242.” Gulf Coast IX.1 (Winter 1997): 62-63.
“Answer to Crowd.” Gulf Coast IX.1 (Winter 1997): 64.
“The Tale of What We Are.” Marlboro Review 3 (Winter/Spring 1997): 90-92.
“Answer to Crowd.” Cimarron Review 120 (July 1997): 147.
“Paseo del Volcan.” The Worcester Review XXI.1 (1997): 41.
“Math.” Chariton Review22.2 (1997): 102-103.
“Black Eye for the Son of Crowd.” Third Coast Winter 1996: 91.
“Elegy for P.N.” Talking River Review Spring 1996: 73-74.
“The Genuine Suffering of Lawyers.” Sonora Review30 (1995): 21-22.

Short Stories:
“Falling Action.” Tampa Review 30 (2007): 26-28.
“Regional Management.” Redivider 4.1 (2006): 30-43.
“Land of the Violent Dead.” Sou’wester Fall 2004: 10-17.
“Motor Voter.” Small Spiral Notebook 1.1 (2003): 92-99.
“The Kansas-Nebraska Act.” Santa Monica Review 15.1 (Spring 2003): 16-22.
“Gooseberries in Russian.” Santa Monica Review 14.2 (Fall 2002): 5-9.
“I’m Walking.” 3rd Bed 6 (2002): 125-128.
“Sister City.” Mid-American Review 12.2 (2002): 36-42.
“Spring Among the Politicians.” Weber Studies 17.3 (2000): 78-88.

Collbaorations:

“Words in the Wild.” Poems and photographs with novelist J. Robert Lennon and printer
Jessamyn Wakefield. Gallery gallery. Ithaca, NY, forthcoming summer 2009..