RICHARD SKELTON

Richard Skelton is a writer and researcher at the Centre for Place Writing, 2017-2020. He is co-director of the Anglo- Canadian publishing house Corbel Stone Press, one of the foremost small presses dedicated to landscape and nature. With the poet Autumn Richardson he co-edits Reliquiae, a bi-annual journal of eco-literature. He is also director of the Centre for Alterity Studies. His books include Landings (2009), Moor Glisk (2012), Beyond the Fell Wall (2015), and Dark Hollow Dark (2019). His 2018 novella The Look Away was longlisted for the Portico Prize. His pamphlet The Giving Way is forthcoming with Guillemot Press, and his book-length poem about humans and animals in the Palaeolithic, Stranger in the Mask of a Deer, is forthcoming in June 2021 with Penned in the Margins.