When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse - Softcover

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Judith Skillman is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She holds a masters in English literature from the University of Maryland and is the author of twenty collections of poetry and a "how to": Broken Lines-The Art & Craft of Poetry (Lummox Press). The recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and Artist Trust, Skillman's work has appeared in LitMag, Poetry, Sewanee Review, The Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, Zyzzyva, We Refugees, and other journals and anthologies.Ms. Skillman has been a Writer in Residence at the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington, and the Hedgebrook Foundation on Whidbey Island. She is the editor, with Linera Lucas, of When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional, and Physical Abuse, from Exposit Books, and a faculty member at Hugo House in Seattle.Also a visual artist, Ms. Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on canvas. She is interested in feelings engendered by the natural world. Her art has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Artemis, The Penn Review, and other journals. -www.judithskillman.com