R. D. Skillings, born 1937, Bath, Maine. Associated with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown since 1969. Following publications: 

• Alternative Lives stories, Ithaca House, Ithaca, NY, 1974. 
• P-Town Stories or The Meatrack, stories, Apple-wood Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980. 
• In A Murderous Time, stories, Apple-wood Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984.
• Where the Time Goes, stories, Hardscrabble Books, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1999.
• Obsidian, novella, Arts End Books, Spencer, MA, 2001.
• How Many Die, novel, Hardscrabble Books, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 2001.
• Memory for Marisa Rose, poems, Arts End Books, Spencer, MA. Forthcoming.