Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud (b. 1980) is the author of two novels: Quartet for the End of Time and the Scotiabank Giller Prize winning The Sentimentalists. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories (2012; shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award), and three collections of poetry: Late Nights With Wild Cowboys (2008; shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award), I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being (2010; shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize), and The Description of the World (2016; shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the Fred Cogswell Award). Skibsrud is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona where she teaches modern and contemporary poetry, and poetics. She and her family divide their time between Tucson and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.