Faculty/Staff Profiles
Daniel Sklar, Professor
School of Arts & Sciences
Email: dsklar@endicott.edu
Phone: 978-232-2175
Office Location: Diane Halle Library
Office Number: 229
Office Hours: MWF 10-12 TTh 9:30-11
Courses
Introduction to Creative Writing
Poetry
Fiction
Playwriting and Screenwriting
Nature Writing
Literature for Children
Drama Survey
Eastern Literature and Haiku
Advanced Poetry Seminar
Biographical Profile
AS OF NOW
I painted apartments in NYC
and went to acting school
then NYU for a masters degree
where my bicycle was stolen
at Washington Square Park.
I drove a taxi and continued
to paint and did some writing.
In 1987, I started a painting
business in Massachusetts
and got a teaching job
at this college. After a year
I was teaching full-time,
creative writing
and some literature.
I still love teaching.
I ride my bike to school
every day.
--Dan Sklar
Accomplishments
Dan Sklar teaches creative writing and inspires his students to love language and to write in an original, natural, and spontaneous way. Some recent publications include Poetry East, Harvard Review, Square Lake, Rhino, July Literary Press, Paper Street, Atlanta Review, the English Journal, the New York Quarterly, Kenning Journal, redbridge: Writing that risks, Barbaric Yawp, which nominated "Mythology" for a Pushcart Prize, The Art of the One-Act, The American Dissident, and Ibbetson St. Press. He is also advisor for the Endicott Review. In September 2008, Ibbetson Street Press published his book of new and selected poems, Bicycles, Canoes, Drums. His play, "Lycanthropy" was performed at the Boston Theater Marathon in May 2012 and was reviewed in the Boston Globe. In April 2013, his play Hack License will be performed at the Actors Studio in Newburyport, MA.
Works-in-Progress
Comraderos Americana: Scenes from the Lives of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau and When the Met A Full-Length Comedy by Dan Sklar
Flying Cats (Actually Swooping) A Book of New and Selected Poems and Stories and One-Act Plays by Dan Sklar
You-Do-It Creative Writing Kit: Ideas for Writers, Novices, and Teachers: A textbook by Dan Sklar
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