Run the Red Lights

• Skoog’s work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares.

• Skoog is a rare voice from the periphery of academic circles. He’s taught in both colleges and high schools, and he’s led workshops for graduate students as well as the homeless.

• Skoog plays a mean banjo, and there are lots of musical references throughout the book, from the Grateful Dead and the Macarena to Alex Chilton.

• Because Skoog has lived in so many places and has become active in many different artistic communities, his work has a wide geographical appeal.

• Ed Skoog worked at “The World Famous Topeka Zoo” all during high school. He wanted to be a zoologist when he graduated, but by the time he left college, he was considering a career in politics after a stint as the student body president.

• Also worked in the basement of the New Orleans Art Museum before Katrina and has a facility with and knowledge of the world of outsider artists.