Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1971. His poems have appeared recently in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Republic, New Orleans Review, The Canary, Fourteen Hills, Practice, and NO: a journal of the arts.
He has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers
Conferences, and won the 2005 William Faulkner Award in Poetry from the
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. He teaches poetry at Idyllwild Arts
Academy in southern California. His first book, Mister Skylight, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2009.
