Margie Skelly’s poetry has been published in Cram 2011, several Tall Grass Writers Guild anthologies put out by Outrider Press, Korone, and Rambunctious Review. Other distinctions include a scholarship in poetry to the Rope Walk Writers Conference in New Harmony, Indiana, summer, 2010; Finalist for the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Contest through the Guild at the Chopin Theater, Chicago, IL, June, 2011; semi-finalist for the 2011 Word Works Washington Prize for a book-length collection of poetry, July, 2011; and contest judge for the thirty-third Evanston-only high school contestants for the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards. She has recently taught poetry revision at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago and poetry writing at the Eisenhower Library in Harwood Heights, Illinois. She has a forthcoming chapbook by Puddin’head Press of Chicago.