Penny Skillman

Penny Skillman has degrees in Zoology and Anthropology from the University of California. She’s the author of the novel, Temp Girl, of 5 novellas, including The Spaniel’s Bark (an Amazon Kindle e-book), set in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury ’68-’69, 3 collections of poetry, including The San Francisco Fatty Arbuckle Past and Virginia Present, and a book of essays entitled Beats, Hipsters, and California Cool: Essays on the Literary Life, Writing, and Other Trifles (Amazon Kindle e-book). She’s written for the San Francisco Chronicle and the S. F. Examiner (SF gate.com), Oakland Tribune, Berkeley Barb, East Bay Express and numerous other pubs., and currently contributes to the Mendocino newspaper, the AVA, and othersPenny Skillman has degrees in Zoology and Anthropology from the University of California. She’s the author of the novel, Temp Girl, of 5 novellas, including The Spaniel’s Bark (an Amazon Kindle e-book), set in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury ’68-’69, 3 collections of poetry, including The San Francisco Fatty Arbuckle Past and Virginia Present, and a book of essays entitled Beats, Hipsters, and California Cool: Essays on the Literary Life, Writing, and Other Trifles (Amazon Kindle e-book). She’s written for the San Francisco Chronicle and the S. F. Examiner (SF gate.com), Oakland Tribune, Berkeley Barb, East Bay Express and numerous other pubs., and currently contributes to the Mendocino newspaper, the AVA, and others.Fiction and poetry usually ongoing. Fiction and poetry usually ongoing.