"José Skinner is a talented writer who keeps his eyes wide open -- and never flinches in the face of what he sees." Christopher Merrill, author of Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars |
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Order Flight and Other Stories from Amazon.com.  Check out: Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence, ed. Sarah Cortez & Sergio Troncoso, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. A .pdf of "Plots" from the Florida Review!
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Born to an American family living in central and south America, José Skinner writes about outcasts and misfits on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. His short story collection, Flight and Other Stories, was a finalist for the Steven Turner Award and the Western States Book Award for Fiction.
Since then, his gritty and imaginative stories have appeared in Boulevard, Third Coast, The Red Rock Review, and other journals and collections. His essays and nonfiction pieces have appeared in The Progressive, Processed World, and Monthly Review; his translations have appeared in Puerto del Sol. He is currently at work on a new novel, Huevos, where two idealistic American teenagers test their masculinity and courage, one by joining the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, the other by coming to terms with his own sexuality. He has also finished Crypto, a collection of short stories set in the southwest U.S. |
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