Floyd Skloot is the author of seventeen books, most recently the poetry collection The Snow's Music (LSU Press, 2008), the memoir The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life (U of Nebraska Press, 2008/2011), which was named by Poets & Writers as one of seventy-nine essential books for creative writers, and the short-story collection Cream of Kohlrabi (Tupelo Press, 2011). Skloot has won three Pushcart Prizes, and his work has been included twice each in The Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing annual anthologies.