Rough Day

Ed Skoog: Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His first book, Mister Skylight (Copper Canyon), was published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications, and earned the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award, the Faulkner’s Marble Faun Prize in Poetry, a fellowship with Bread Loaf, and residencies with George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He lives in Seattle, Washington.