Floyd Skloot - River City Writers Series Tonight!

Floyd Skloot, father of UofM faculty member Rebecca Skloot, will read from his work and speak as part of the River City Writers Series this evening at The Jay Etkin Gallery. The reading will be a wonderful event — a mix of poetry, nonfiction and fiction, with discussions of how the three genres overlap and relate in his work, and what it’s like to be a family of writers who often write about each other.

Floyd Skloot is a nonfiction writer, poet and novelist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Poetry, American Scholar, Georgia Review, Sewanee Review and many others. He contributes book reviews regularly to the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle and others. He has written 15 books, including the memoirs "In the Shadow of Memory" and "A World of Light"; the poetry collections "The Evening Light," "Approximately Paradise" and "The End of Dreams," and most recently the novel "Patient 002." His awards include the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction; the Independent Publishers Book Award in Creative Nonfiction; Oregon Book Awards in both Creative Nonfiction and Poetry; two Pushcart Prizes, and others. He's twice appeared in "The Best American Essays" and "The Best American Science Writing," and once in "The Best Spiritual Writing," "The Best Food Writing" and "The Art of the Essay." He has three books forthcoming in 2008 -- "Selected Poems: 1970-2005" from Tupelo Press, "The Snow's Music" from Louisiana State University Press and "The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life" from University of Nebraska Press. In May, 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Franklin and Marshall College, his alma mater. For more information: www.floydskloot.com

Reception and Reading: March 17 @ 6 PM and 7 PM, respectively, Jay Etkin Gallery, 409 South Main Street. Click HERE for directions from UofM.
(Complimentary snacks and beverages)