Joseph Skibell
Joseph Skibell (born October 18, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist living in Atlanta, Georgia, and Tesuque, New Mexico. Skibell is the author of three novels, which use elements of history and fantasy, a collection of true stories, and a forthcoming mythopoetic study of the tales in the Talmud: A Blessing on the Moon (1997) The English Disease (2003) A Curable Romantic (2010) My Father's Guitar & Other Imaginary Things (2015) Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud (2016). Early life Skibell was born in Lubbock, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, he took a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Texas Center of Writers (now the Michener Center for Writers) in 1996. His brother is actor Steven Skybell, with whom he studies in the Talmudic Daf Yomi program. Academic career He was the Jay C. and Ruth Hall Fellow in Fiction at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the academic year of 1996-97. In 2002, he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Skibell has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the Humber School for Writers, the Taos