FLOYD SKLOOT is a three-time Pushcart Prize winner and the author of 20 books, including In the Shadow of Memory (U. of Nebraska Press) which won the PEN USA Literary Award in creative nonfiction, the poetry collections Approaching Winter, The Snow's Music and The End of Dreams (LSU Press, 2015, 2008, 2006) and the new novel The Phantom of Thomas Hardy (University of Wisconsin Press).