Author: Judith Skillman
Alternate names: Judith A Skillman
Born: 1954
Bio: Judith Skillman’s tenth book, “Heat Lightning, New and Selected Poems 1986 – 2006, “ was published by Silverfish Review Press. “The Carnival of All or Nothing” is forthcoming from Cervéna Barva Press in 2009.   Her third chapbook, “Any Kind of Kindling,” is forthcoming from Adagio Verse Quarterly in March.

Skillman is the recipient of the Eric Mathieu King Award from Academy of American Poets, King County Arts Commission Publication Prize, KCAC Public Arts grant, and Washington State Arts Commission Writer’s Fellowship.  She holds a Masters in English Literature from the University of Maryland, and has done graduate work in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Washington.  

Skillman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, FIELD, The Southern Review, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), The Iowa Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Northwest Review, and numerous other journals and anthologies.  She has been a frequent Writer in Residence at Centrum.  Currently she teaches for University of Phoenix, Washington Campus. Please see www.judithskillman.com for more information.