Floyd Skloot
Floyd Skloot is the author of fifteen books. He has won three Pushcart Prizes and a PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and has been included in Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Food Writing, and Best Spiritual Writing. His most recent memoir, The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life (University of Nebraska, 2008), was one of the Oregonian’s Top 10 Northwest Books of the year.
Articles
- Sway Me Smooth: Sound Track for an MRI of the Brain
Brought to his knees by vertigo and desperate for a correct diagnosis, the author pauses during an enforced stillness to appreciate what keeps him steady.

