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Author with CFS Wins Literary Award
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Writer Floyd Skloot, who has CFS, has published 11 books and won
numerous literary awards.
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Floyd Skloot is a nonfiction writer, poet, and novelist
whose work has appeared in such distinguished magazines as The New York Times
Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Poetry, American Scholar, Georgia Review,
Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction, and
Shenandoah.
Floyd also has CFS. But that hasn’t stopped him from creating
award-winning pieces of literature. In fact, his most recent memoir, A World
of Light, was an Editor's Choice Selection of the New York Times Book Review
in January. And his collection of poetry, Approximately Paradise, won a Pacific
Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award at ceremonies in Seattle in March.
Meanwhile, his next collection of poetry, The End of Dreams, was just published by
Louisiana State University Press in April.
Says Floyd, "The two [poetry] collections have come out within
a space of six months, which makes it seem like I'm wildly productive for a sick
man. But in fact, The End of Dreams was finished five years ago, and
accepted four years ago. . . . I'm lucky to have it appearing from this
wonderful publisher, which last week won a Pulitzer Prize for a poetry
collection they issued last year. Both books contain numerous poems—many of
them historical in focus, about illness and its impact on lives, art,
career."
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Floyd’s poetry collection Approximately
Paradise recently won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book
Award.
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Floyd’s eleven books include the memoirs In the Shadow of
Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) and A World of Light
(University of Nebraska Press, 2005); the poetry collections The Evening
Light (Story Line Press, 2001), Approximately Paradise (Tupelo Press,
2005), and The End of Dreams (Louisiana State University Press, 2006);
and the novels Summer Blue (Story Line Press, 1994) and The Open
Door (Story Line Press, 1997). His next novel, Patient 002, about
patients in the clinical field trial of a new drug, will be appearing in spring
2007.
Floyd lives in a small house in the woods with
his wife, Beverly Hallberg, an Impressionist landscape painter whose work graces
the covers of Approximately Paradise (see photo) and The End of
Dreams.
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