Jeffrey Skinner’s 2014 Guggenheim award in Poetry involved a conflation of contemporary physics, poetry, and theology. He served as the June 2015 Artist in Residence at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015, he was awarded an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award. His most recent book, Chance Divine, won the FIELD Prize and was published by Oberlin Press in 2017.