Jeffrey Skinner is the author of the poetry collections Salt Water Amnesia, Late Stars, A Guide to Forgetting, The Company of Heaven, and Gender Studies, and of The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir. He is also the editor of the poetry anthologies Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance;and Passing the Word: Poets and Their Mentors. Cofounder of the literary publishing house Sarabande Books, he is an editorial consultant and the president of the board of directors.

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