John Skoyles (born December 11, 1949, in Queens, New York) is an American poet and writer.

He attended Mater Christi High School (now St. John’s Prep) in Astoria, graduating in 1967.

He did his undergraduate work at Fairfield University and attended workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where he was a student of Dick Gallup and Lewis MacAdams.

He is a member of the Order of the Occult Hand and of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

on Yes and No by John Skoyles, Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones & True Figures by David Blair – On the Seawall Contemporary Authors Online.