skye moody
Pacific Northwest USA
Before turning full-time to fiction writing, Ms. Moody worked for 25 years as an international journalist and photojournalist, winning critical acclaim for her first two books of nonfiction, Hillbilly Women, and, Fruits of Our Labor: Soviet & American Workers Talk About Making a Living. Hillbilly Women was adapted for the stage and produced Off Broadway.
Author of both fiction and nonfiction, Skye Moody has published 10 books and numerous short stories, essays and magazine and newspaper columns.
Her next novel, "Mercy" will be published in 2009.
Her latest nonfiction book, "WASHED UP, The Curious Journeys of Flotsam & Jetsam (Sasquatch 2007) received the Washington Librarian's "Washington is Reading" award. This nonfiction book reveals the existence of continent-sized "garbage patches" in all the world's oceans, consisting primarily of plastic objects, but the book is also an entertaining look at "flotsamists", those whacky folks around the world who collect strange inorganic objects that wash up on the world's beaches.
As a journalist and photojournalist for 25 years, Ms. Moody covered social and environmental issues, including on-site writing during China's Cultural Revolution and on-site commentaries on most of the former Soviet Union's republics. Ms. Moody has traveled throughout the world, primarily in Third World and developing nations, including China, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Tadjikistan, Georgia, Russia, northeastern Siberia, and in East Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. Going on location, she has covered such subjects as Chinese and Russian coal mining, reindeer herding in northern Siberia, textile mills and farming in Uzbekistan, river pollution in the Republic of Georgia, and the effects of acid rain in the Arctic Circle in northern Finland.
As an East Africa bush guide in the mid-80's, Ms. Moody wrote cultural guides for physicians and led their safaris into the bush to help diagnose and treat Kenyan and Tanzanian tribal communities. Her numerous public appearances and lectures have included an invitation to address artists' rights in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a position on the faculty at the Lahti International Writers Conference in Lahti and Helsinki, Finland. Her black and white portraits of native peoples have been exhibited in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk, Russia, in Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in Tblisi, Georgia, in Chengdu, China, and in New York and Seattle.
She taught a fine arts photography workshop at Chengdu University in Sichuan Province, China.
A professional writer all of her adult life, Skye Moody has had published more than eighty essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems. Her books have won a "Mademoiselle Woman of the Year" award and a president's award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In the US, Ms. Moody was for five years a weekly columnist for New Orleans ' Times Picayune, and was a 1997 Poet-in-Residence at Tulane University, where she taught the novel. In 2007 Ms. Moody was Writer-in-Residence at Seattle University. From 200-2007, Ms. Moody taught Creative Writing and the novel at the University of Washington in their Extension Program.
She is presently at work on a new novel.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publications
Updated, May 2008
Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam & Jetsam, (Sasquatch, Seattle, 2006, Nonfiction)
"Washington Librarian's "Washington Reads" award
Fiction/Novels
Mercy, [to be published 2009]
The Good Diamond, (St. Martin’s, New York, August 2004)
Medusa, (St. Martin’s, New York, August, 2003)
K Falls, (St. Martin’s, New York, 2001) "..a riveting addition to a fine series." PW
Habitat (St. Martin’s, New York, 2000)
Wildcrafters, (St. Martin’s, New York, 1998) Starred PW review, Spotted Owl Award nominee
Blue Poppy, (St. Martin’s, New York, 1997)
Rain Dance, (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1996)
Nonfiction/Books (as Kathy Kahn)
Fruits of Our Labor
Soviet & American Workers Talk About Making a Living
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1982
(Received National Endowment for the Humanities President’s Award)
Hillbilly Women
Mountain Women Speak of Sorrow and Joy
Doubleday & Co., New York, 1972-74
Avon Paperback, 1974
Budapest Publishing, Budapest, 1974
(Received Mademoiselle Magazine’s “Woman of the Year” Award)
Fiction/Short Stories/Plays (Sample)
These Crowded Woods
(Wild Crimes, Short Stories Anthology edited by Dana Stabenow,
Penguin Putnam, New York, 2004)
The False Southern Gentleman
(Double Dealer Redux, New Orleans, 1997)
Faux Pas: Origins of the Social Blunder in Human Civilization
(Southern Lights, New Orleans, 1995, Manya DeLeon Booksmith, New Orleans)
Four Faux Pas and Why to Avoid Them
(Southern Lights, New Orleans, 1995)
How the World Began
A One-Act Play Satirizing Divorce from Children’s Points of View
(Produced and Directed by Robin Bady
Opened at: 92nd Street Y, New York, 1985
Quarterly Publications (Sample of Features/Series)
Finland’s Forests/Two-Part Story & Photographs
A Study of Forestry and Acid Rain in Sub-arctic Climates
World Forestry Magazine, Portland, 1987, 1988
Three Mile Island
A Study of the Immediate Effects of a Nuclear Accident on Local Populations
Greenpeace Chronicles, Vancouver, 1979
Hard Times in the Mill
A Study of the Effects of Textile Mill Closure on the Town of Aragon, Georgia
New South Magazine, 1970
Newspaper Journalism/Photojournalism (Sample)
Helsingen Sanomat
Helsinki, Finland
Archives: Photography, 1995
Archives: Moody @ Lahti International Writers Conference, ‘95
New York Times
Archives: 1972 & ’95, ’96, ‘97
Times Picayune, 1994-98
New Orleans
Weekly columnist, 250 columns
Features Writer & Photographer: numerous feature stories
WHERE Magazine/New Orleans
Archives: Monthly columnist, photographer
(Please see Website, SkyeMoody.com)
SHORT STORIES (Sample)
The Magnolia Bluff
(Seattle Noir 2009)
These Crowded Woods
(Wild Crimes, Short Stories Anthology edited by Dana Stabenow,
Penguin Putnam, New York, 2004)
The False Southern Gentleman
(Double Dealer Redux, New Orleans, 1997)
FAUX PAS: Origins of the Social Blunder in Human Civilization
(PEN South's Southern Lights, New Orleans, 1995, Manya DeLeon Booksmith, New Orleans)
FOUR FAUS PAS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
(PEN South's Southern Lights, New Orleans, 1995)
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