Ed Skoog is the author of two collections of poetry, MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and ROUGH DAY (forthcoming). His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Narrative and Poetry Northwest, and several anthologies. He has received fellowships and residencies from The Lannan Foundation, The Richard Hugo House, George Washington University, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. He has taught at Tulane, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and Idyllwild Arts Foundation, where he continues to coordinate the summer poetry program.