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.
Circassian Chicken Salad
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 moreOne liners, and the perils of social media
We Turkish are little specks, worker bees, in the hive of the world that is run by the Queen Bee, America. We grow up comparing and finding ways to be even 10 or 11. You grow up being number one.Adalet in What Survives One liners, two liners, what do they want from me? I do not write thrillers. I do not write action. I am quite content in the genre of literary and sometimes historical fiction. I am a writer who writes because it is simply what I do. I love to put ideas on the page, and to express them through my characters. I am a dinosaur,...
read moreEggplant Boats
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 moreBlack Sea Flatbread
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 moreBaklava
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 Pizza
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 moreCooking Class at the Raindrop Foundation is Back!!
You may remember my mourning the lack of cooking classes at the Turkish House during the worst of COVID-19 and prior to the days of vaccinations. I was thrilled to be able to sign up for class this past Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. To my pleasant surprise, the room was filled with a variety of masked and vaccinated women, all eager to experience the art of Turkish cuisine. Rabia Sahin Orhan led the foursome of Turkish experts in creating an unforgettable meal. Eggplant is the only vegetable my husband is not particularly fond of, but I took him a...
read moreMy interview with Joan Schweighardt about ‘River Aria’ on LitPub.com
I’m so pleased to do this in-depth interview with the lovely and talented Joan Schweighardt, author of the Rivers Trilogy, for litpub.com. Her latest book, River Aria, is the third in the trilogy. It began with a freelance assignment about a little-known historical event, which became a decade-long fascination that led to three novels. Schweighardt came across the annotated diary of a man who tapped rubber trees in the Amazon rainforest during the rubber boom of the early 1900s. She found herself riveted, and soon there was Book One,...
read moreI Miss Cooking Classes at the Raindrop Turkish House
EDITOR’S NOTE: Phyllis M Skoy’s newest novel, As They Are, takes place in Turkey and is a prequel to her award-winning novel, What Survives. In April 2022, What Survives will be re-released from Black Rose Writing, and As They Are will publish June 16, 2022. Sign up here to be the first to know when they are available for pre-order. Although I love making Turkish dishes at home, and I have the cookbooks and ingredients all here, I do miss the camaraderie of cooking together at the Turkish House in Albuquerque since the pandemic. Women are...
read moreLooking Back and Looking Forward
My novel As They Are will take you back to Turkey. Look for it April 12, 2022, or get on the pre-order list now. I miss Turkey. My plans to go back, like the plans of so many others, have been interrupted by politics and the advent of the coronavirus. I miss the sights, the sounds, the people, the smells, the music. I envy those I know who have made the trip despite it all, but my immune system will not allow me to travel under the present circumstances. Now that my second novel in A Turkish Trilogy, As They Are, will be coming out April...
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