Jeffrey Skinner is an American poet, writer, playwright, and emeritus professor in the Department of English at the University of Louisville.
His recent play Dream On, had its premier full production in February 2007, by the Cardboard Box Collaborative Theatre in Philadelphia.
His poems, plays and stories have gathered grants, fellowships, and awards from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky.
He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Frost Place, the MacDowell Colony, and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown.
[4] Jeffrey Skinner is Chair of the Board of Directors, and Editorial Consultant, for Sarabande Books, a literary publishing house founded by his wife Sarah Gorham.