John Skoyles is the author of six books of poems: A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul; The Situation; Inside Job; and Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems. He is also the author of five prose works: Generous Strangers; Secret Frequencies: A New York Education; A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry; The Nut File; and Driven, a memoir in travelogue form. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Paris Review, and others.