Jeffrey Skinner

Poet, playwright, and essayist Jeffrey Skinner was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He served as the June 2015 Artist in Residence at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 he was also awarded one of eight American Academy of Arts & Letters Awards for exceptional accomplishment in writing.

His most recent prose book, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets, was published to wide attention and acclaim, including a full-page positive review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. His most recent collection of poems, Sober Ghost, was published in 2024 by C&R Books. Previous collections include Late Stars (Wesleyan), A Guide to Forgetting (Graywolf), The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series), Gender Studies (Miami University Press), Salt Water Amnesia (Ausable Press), Glaciology (Southern Illinois University Press), and Chance Divine (Oberlin Press). He has edited two anthologies, Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors.

Over the years Skinner's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and many other publications. He is, along with his wife the poet Sarah Gorham, the co-founder of Sarabande Books. He is Professor Emeritus at The University of Louisville.