Broken Lines - The Art & Craft of Poetry
Judith Skillman’s latest collection is The Phoenix: New & Selected Poems 2007 –  2013, from Dream Horse Press. The recipient of an award from the Academy of  American Poets for her book Storm (Blue Begonia Press), she has also received  a King County Arts Commission (KCAC) Publication Prize, Public Arts Grant,  and Washington State Arts Commission Writer’s Fellowship. Two of her books  were finalists for the Washington State Book Award (Red Town and Prisoner of the  Swifts.) She holds a Masters in English Literature and has taught at University  of Phoenix, Richard Hugo House, City University, Yellow Wood Academy, and  elsewhere. Skillman’s poems and collaborative translations have appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Midwest Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, and other journals and anthologies. She has been a Writer in Residence at the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington, and The Hedgebrook Foundation. At the Center for French Translation in Seneffe, Belgium, she translated French-Belgian poet Anne-Marie Derése. A Jack Straw Writer in 2008 and 2013, Skillman’s work has been nominated for  Pushcart Prizes, the UK Kit Award, Best of the Web, and is included in Best Indie  Verse of New England. For more information, please visit www.judithskillman.com Ms. Skillman is available for manuscript consultations through her website or  http://www.lumoxpress.com