Ms. Skeen is the author of four volumes of poetry: The Resurrection of the Animals (MSU Press, 2002); Each Hand a Map (Naiad Press, Inc., 1986); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (MSU Press, 1999); and Portraits. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. She is currently completing a new volume of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a first novel, Minor Chords.

"In Anita Skeen's world, the past rolls in like fog, unpredictably, to trouble and reconfigure the present. It is a world well worth visiting despite its hazards. Moreover, she has the uncanny ability to make me feel that I have already seen part of it, but not enough; so that I linger until I become part of her pemanent audience. In the landscape of American poetry Anita Skeen matters." George Ellenbogen

Anita Skeen was born in 1946 and grew up in West Virginia. She graduated from Concord College in Athens, West Virginia, and received her graduate degrees from Bowling Green State Un iversity in Bowling Green, Ohio. She is Professor of English and Director of the Residential Option in Arts and Letters Program at Michigan State University, and teaches Creative Writing, Women's Studies, and Canadian Studies. Prior to coming to MSU, she was on the faculty of the English Department and MFA Program at Wichita State University. While at WSU, Skeen co-founded the Kay Closson Women Writing Series. The series, presented annually by the WSU Center for Women’s Studies since 1981, is now known as the Words By Women Series. She is also Director of the Creative Arts Festival and the Fall Writing Series at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

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http://web.msu.edu/unit/engdept/people/faculty/skeen.htm