John Skoyles (poet)

John Skoyles (poet)

John Skoyles (b. 1949 in Queens, New York) is an American poet and writer.

Skoyles has taught at Southern Methodist University, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College and Emerson College. He directed the MFA Program at Warren Wilson from 1984 to 1992, and served as Chair of the Emerson College Writing, Literature and Publishing Department from 1994 to 2001. He was executive director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1992–94 and again from January to July 2007. He currently teaches at Emerson College and is the poetry editor of Ploughshares.

He was educated at Fairfield University and the University of Iowa.

More information about John Skoyles can be found on his website www.johnskoyles.net