Joseph Skibell (pronounced SKY-bell) is the author of five previous books, most notably the award-winning and critically-acclaimed novels, A Blessing on the Moon and A Curable Romantic. He has received numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature, and the Turner Prize.
His work has been described as “confirmation that no subject lies beyond the grasp of a gifted, committed imagination” (New York Times); “witty and profound” (Jerusalem Report); “laugh-outloud humorous” (Forward); “brave … unafraid” (New York Journal of Books); “magical” (New Yorker); “high-energy, wild” (New Republic); and “wholly original” (JM Coetzee).
Skibell’s stories, essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, LitHub, Tablet, the Utne Reader, Tikkun, Fretboard Journal, and many other publications. The Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University, he was, for a decade, the director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. When he’s not teaching, he lives in northern New Mexico.
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