Floyd Skloot is a creative nonfiction writer, poet, and fiction writer whose work has received three Pushcart Prizes, a Pen USA Literary Award, two Pacific NW Book Awards, an Independent Publishers Book Award, and two Oregon Book Awards. In 2010, Poets & Writers named him one of 50 of the most inspiring authors in the world. His writing has appeared in such distinguished magazines as The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Poetry, American Scholar, Boulevard, Georgia Review, Hopkins Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Hudson Review, Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and Creative Nonfiction. His nineteen books include the memoirs In the Shadow of Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), A World of Light (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), and Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014); the poetry collections The End of Dreams (Louisiana State University Press, 2006), Selected Poems: 1970-2005 (Tupelo Press, 2008), The Snow's Music (Louisiana State University Press, 2008), Close Reading (Eyewear Publishing, London UK, 2014, and Approaching Winter (Louisiana State University Press 2015); and the novels Summer Blue (Story Line Press, 1994) and Patient 002 (Rager Media, 2007).He co-edited The Best American Science Writing 2011 (HarperCollins/Ecco Press) with his daughter, Rebecca Skloot.He contributes book reviews to the New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Harvard Review, Sewanee Review, and other publications.Floyd has taught at the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Summer Writers Conference at Goucher College, the Paris Writers Workshop, and elsewhere.He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Beverly Hallberg, a weaver and landscape painter, whose light-filled works cross between impressionistic and abstracted styles. Her paintings grace the covers of Floyd's books, Approximately Paradise, The End of Dreams, Selected Poems: 1970-2005, and The Snow's Music. She is also an avid birder whose photo-filled blog can be enjoyed at rivermile14.com. Floyd's daughter, Rebecca Skloot, is the bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Crown Books, 2010), winner of the Heartland Prize and Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and named Best Book of 2010 by Amazon.com. Visit her website at www.rebeccaskloot.com.