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David Sklar

poet
satirist
fantasist
​reluctant cartoonist
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Writing in the spaces between the impossible magic of legends, the inscrutable magic of dreams, and the breathtaking everyday magic of the world in which we live.
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stories

​David's fiction has appeared in such journals as Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Space and Time.
  • Rules for Killing Monsters
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Humor and Satire

David's humor publications include work in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Knights of the Dinner Table, and The Wittenburg Door. 
  • Shakespeare's Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
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Poetry

David's poetry has appeared in Ladybug, Wormwood Review, Stone Telling, Paterson Literary Review, and many other places.
  • The Allfather's Ravens
  • Before I Kill You (an arch-villainelle)
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The Poetry Crisis Line

Whether you ate the plums that were in the icebox or don't know if you dare to eat a peach, the Poetry Crisis Line is here to help.
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David Sklar never learned to drink coffee until he had kids. A Rhysling nominee and past winner of the Julia Moore Award for Bad Verse, he has more than 100 published works, including fiction in Nightmare and Strange Horizons, poetry in Ladybug and Stone Telling, and humor in Knights of The Dinner Table and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. David lives with his wife, their two barbarians, and a secondhand familiar in a cliffside cottage in Northern New Jersey, where he almost supports his family as a freelance writer and editor. He’s also the creator of the Poetry Crisis Line, at poetrycrisis.org

Interviews

Interviews
  • My interview in Nightmare Magazine
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