A recipient of a Halls Fellowship, a Michener Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Skibell was inducted into the Sami Rohr Literary Institute in 2011. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the Humber School for Writers, the Taos Summer Writers Conference, and Bar-Ilan University. He joined the English Department/Creative Writing Program at Emory University in 1999, and is the director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. He will be teaching during Fall 2011 at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin.

Books by Joseph Skibell

A Blessing on the Moon

by Joseph Skibell

Death is merely the beginning of Chaim Skibelski’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi, who has taken the form of a talking crow.