From the UMSL Newsroom By Rose Postma Today University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus Rick Skwiot is an award-winning author of several books, but in 1965 he was just a freshman beginning his education at UMSL. His unversity experience challenged and changed him. “Many students were first generation university students like me – ethnic, eager to break [...]
About Rick Skwiot
Award-winning Key West-based novelist and memoirist Rick Skwiot is the author of the Hemingway First Novel Award winner Death in Mexico (previously published as Flesh), the Willa Cather Fiction Prize finalist Sleeping With Pancho Villa, the critically acclaimed childhood memoir Christmas at Long Lake, and, most recently, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Memoir of a Sensual Quest for Spiritual Healing. He has taught creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis and served as the 2004 Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Co-founder and director of the nonprofit Key West Writers Lab, he lives in Key West, Florida.
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Read the full article →“I have enjoyed Christmas at Long Lake hugely…It is beautiful and cleanly written, and I admire it not only for its use of language but as well fro the ways in which, within the framework of the narration of events of a couple of days, it works outward to create a larger thematic universe [...]