John Skoyles is the author of four books of poems, A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul and The Situation, all from Carnegie-Mellon University Press which will publish his New & Selected Poems in 2016.  He is also the author of a book of personal essays, Generous Strangers; a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education; and the recently published A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry.  He teaches at Emerson College and is the poetry editor of Ploughshares.