Woody Skinner is a Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner whose work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Booth, The Carolina Quarterly, and Mid-American Review. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Woody Skinner's characters manage to be both wonderfully absurd
and absurdly normal. They remind us of our common humanity even as
we watch them navigate their impossible, sad and surprising lives.
A Thousand Distant Radios is a beautifully strange collection of
stories." --Margaret Malone, author, People Like You and
PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
"A Thousand Distant Radios is an extravagantly weird book. Woody
Skinner is a singular talent, and I'm glad to have found his
stories." --Kyle Minor, author, Praying Drunk
"I love Woody Skinner's deft, ironic writing; he's like a literary
country doctor, giving you the bad news so gently you barely notice
how much it hurts. Inventive, emotional, and shruggingly comic,
these stories give us a 21st-century American South populated by
characters - a plumber, a knife salesman, a reluctant catfish
farmer - who regret their mistakes while they wait in vain for
their real lives to start: people, that is, like you and me." --J.
Robert Lennon, author, Familiar
"Skinner's work is reminiscent of other great voice-driven comic
writers of the American South: Barry Hannah, Donald Barthelme,
Padgett Powell. Like these writers, Skinner, winner of [the]
Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, is funny, sure, but also capable
of affecting pathos within the strangest of premises . . . wildly
inventive and darkly comic, but always moving." --Memorious
Magazine
"Woody Skinner possesses such a mesmerizing gift with language that
it's hard not to invoke writers like Barry Hannah and Joy Williams
. . . A Thousand Distant Radios announces the arrival of an amazing
writer, fully-formed, ready to blow you away." --Kevin Wilson,
author, The Family Fang
"Woody Skinner's stories are sly, tragic, violent, beautiful. This
is a powerful and disturbing collection, the most gripping work
I've read in some time." --Elizabeth McKenzie, author, The Portable
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