Ed Skoog is the author of Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), which won the Washington State Book Award in Poetry. He is a graduate of the University of Montana, and has been a visiting professor there. He has received fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. He lives in Portland, Oregon.