Sharyn Skeeter Author, Poet, Editor, Educator

Her poetry and articles have been published in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including: Chicago Quarterly Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Hypertext Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Fiction, Café Review, Callaloo, Connecticut River Review, Essence, Obsidian II, Pearl Magazine, Poet Lore, Re-Markings (India), Black Enterprise, Keeping the Faith: Writings by Contemporary Black American Women, In Search of Color Everywhere (ed. Ethelbert Miller), The Second Word Thursdays (ed. Bright Hill Press), and Our Black Sons Matter (ed. George Yancy).

After a year as an assistant in Mademoiselle magazine’s fiction and poetry department, she became fiction, poetry, and book review editor at Essence magazine and, later, editor in chief at Black Elegance magazine.

She was an instructor and assistant professor in journalism, writing, and black American literature at Emerson College, the University of Bridgeport, Fairfield University, and Three Rivers, Norwalk, and Gateway community colleges.

She has given readings and participated in literary events in the United States, India, and Singapore.

In Seattle, she’s the board vice president of Earth Creative, an arts, education, and science organization to raise awareness about climate change and climate justice. For high school students, she’s a sponsor of Earth Creative’s Sharyn Skeeter Student Climate Project Award. She is a former board member of Hugo House (a literary arts organization) and a former trustee of ACT Theatre (now Union Arts Center).

Sharyn Skeeter is currently working on a new novel and a short story collection.