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Floyd Skloot
Floyd Skloot (born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist who has often written about the search for meaning through personal loss and the struggle for coherence in a fragmented world. Some of his work has dealt with his battle with neurological damage caused by a virus (brain lesions) he contracted in 1988.〔"Frames of mind ; Writer and poet Floyd Skloot offers a powerful, candid memoir of devastating brain damage" by Julia Keller, ''Chicago Tribune'', May 25, 2003〕〔("Shards of memory cut through the haze" )〕
==Life==
Skloot received a B.A from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.A. in English at Southern Illinois University, where he studied with the Irish poet Thomas Kinsella. In 2006,Franklin & Marshall College awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. A New Yorker, Skloot moved to Portland, Oregon in 1984. He is married to painter Beverly Hallberg, who specializes in both abstract and impressionist landscapes and writes a blog (Rivermile14.com) with photographs about her activity as a birder. Skloot is the father of the bestselling non-fiction writer Rebecca Skloot, whose work includes ''The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks''. Skloot and Hallberg live in Oregon.
Skloot is the author of nineteen books, including the memoirs "In the Shadow of Memory," (2003) "A World of Light," (2005), "The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life," (2008) each published by the University of Nebraska Press, and "Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). His recent poetry collections are "The End of Dreams" and "The Snow's Music," both from Louisiana State University Press, "Close Reading" from Eyewear Publishing in the UK, and "Selected Poems: 1970-2005" from Tupelo Press. He has contributed to publications including ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Harper's'', ''Poetry'', ''The Sewanee Review'', ''Southern Review'', ''Boulevard'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', "The Hopkins Review," ''Hudson Review'', and ''Southwest Review''. His book reviews frequently appear in the ''Boston Globe'',''New York Times'', and Harvard Review. Skloot and his daughter co-edited ''The Best American Science Writing 2011'' for HarperCollins/Ecco, published in September 2011. He published his first collection of short stories in 2011, "Cream of Kohlrabi," from Tupelo Press. In Fall 2015, Louisiana State University Press published his new collection of poems, "Approaching Winter," in fall 2015. He recently completed novel entitled "The Phantom of Thomas Hardy."
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