Floyd Skloot

Biography

Floyd Skloot’s books include six poetry collections, including Selected Poems (Tupelo, April 2008), and the memoir In the Shadow of Memory (Nebraska, 2003), winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Independent Publishers Book Award. The sequel, A World of Light (Nebraska, 2005), was a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice selection.

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See Work

Winter 2008

When the Clock Stops

By Floyd Skloot
CRITICISM / Summer 2006

Turning to Memoir

By Floyd Skloot

Memoir, in a way that sounds melodramatic but is true, saved me as a writer by allowing me to give voice to my experience. Also by demanding that I read and research in the areas of neurology, cognitive science, virology, and philosophy of...

Autumn 2001

Counteracting the Powers of Darkness

By Floyd Skloot
Spring 1993

Delius & Fenby

By Floyd Skloot
Autumn 2003

Salmon River Estuary

By Floyd Skloot
Winter 1996

Replacement Players

By Floyd Skloot
Summer 2003

Relocation

By Floyd Skloot
Spring 1997

The Wings of the Wind

By Floyd Skloot
Summer 2003

The Dance

By Floyd Skloot
Winter 2000

The Tsar At Dawn

By Floyd Skloot