Joseph Skibell

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<DIV>Possessing “a gifted, committed imagination” (<I>New York Times</I>), Joseph Skibell is the author of three novels, <I>A Blessing on the Moon, The English Disease, </I>and<I> A Curable Romantic</I>; the forthcoming collection of nonfiction stories<I> My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things</I>; and another forthcoming nonfiction work, <I>Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud.</I> 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 Award in Jewish Literature, <I>Story </I>magazine’s Short Short-Story Prize, and the Turner Prize for First Fiction.<BR /><BR /> As director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature from 2008 to 2015, he sang and played guitar onstage with both Margaret Atwood and Paul Simon. A professor at Emory University, Skibell has also taught at the University of Wisconsin and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Recently a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, he is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University. A native Texan, he lives mostly in his head.</DIV>