About the Author
Phyllis M Skoy has been writing throughout her life. However, it wasn’t until 2013 that she submitted her work for publication. Phyllis was named Discovery of the Year for “bosque, the magazine” for her short story, “Life After.” Her first novel, What Survives, was short-listed for the Santa Fe Writers Project.
A one-time song lyricist, Phyllis practiced the short form as she studied and pursued a career as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. While living in New York City, she studied American Sign Language and Seido Karate and established a karate program for the deaf in collaboration with her karate grandmaster, Kaicho Nakamura. Although she retired as a second degree black belt, her program continues.
Phyllis has a master’s degree in counseling from Fordham University, a master’s degree in social work from Wurzweiler School of Social Work (Yeshiva University) and a certification in the child and adolescent from Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
In 2000, Phyllis and her husband relocated to Placitas, New Mexico, but Phyllis returned to NYC in 2001 to work as a volunteer for the Red Cross after Sept. 11.
“As They Are,” forthcoming in April 2022, is the prequel to her award-winning novel, “What Survives,” both of which are set in Turkey. She also is the author of “Myopia, a memoir.”
Phyllis is retired from a small private psychoanalytic practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Two reviews of As They Are
Review from psychoanalyst Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., author of The Hands of Gravity/The Parts Left Out/This Will Do What a remarkable experience it has been reading As They Are. The most important aspect of a story or novel is the writing itself, and it is here that this book warrants the highest praise. The narrative voice speaks in simple declarative sentences, but there is always something brewing. I like the surprise of shifting the voice from third person to first person in Part 2. That shift mid-stream is an unusual and interesting thing...
read moreTurkish Zebra Cake
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
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Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
read moreSemolina Dessert with Maras Ice Cream
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
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Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
read moreTurkish Bagel
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
read moreKisir
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
read moreLentil Patties
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
read morePreference Considered
All of our lives, we suffer folks who tell us what we ought to be doing. Some of this is good advice, and we are glad to have taken wise instruction. The problem is that many folks speak with great authority when they are dead wrong. You may be thinking that this is obvious. What is she talking about? Any idiot knows this. But what do you do when the orthodontist tells you that unless you have major work done on your jaw, you will eventually lose all of your teeth? Of course, that work will cost you thousands of dollars and put you in...
read moreGrape Leaves
Take a voyage to Turkey with me as you enjoy my novels, What Survives and As They Are. To download the full recipe booklet, click on the image at right. All recipes offered with permission from the Turkish Raindrop Foundation.
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