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.
What Does Survive? A Reading in New York
From the author of What Survives A Reading and Book Signing at the American Sephardi Federation in New York City Jan. 18, 2017 Arthur and I arrive in New York City in the early morning hours at JFK via the Jet Blue red-eye. I am here to do a reading and book signing for my novel What Survives. We settle into our taxi, just half-awake, accustomed to the heavy morning rush hour traffic and ready for the long drive into midtown Manhattan. We cross the bridge we’ve crossed a gazillion times before and like little children returning to the...
read moreMy memoir “Myopia” to be published in 2017
Dear Friends and Readers, I am so pleased to announce that IP Books will publish Myopia, a memoir, my family memoir that will be coming out some time in 2017. I promise to keep you posted. Work began on this close to 30 years ago while living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. My mother passed away in 1986, and my father was in his early 90s and dying slowly from kidney failure. The more I thought about my father’s bumpy road from extreme poverty and the pogroms of Russia to the streets of Philadelphia, from working long hours at The...
read moreIftar Meal For The Turkish Language Class
Muhsine Aykac and her husband, Salih, hosted an incredible iftar dinner (the meal eaten after sundown during Ramadan) for our Turkish class. Salih’s parents were visiting from Turkey and his anne definitely makes the tastiest grape leaves I’ve ever eaten. Let’s hope that things will calm down over there so we can all go back next year and try all the grape leaves we can find just to be sure.
read moreA Successful Book Launch
The book launch for What Survives was very successful! The food was amazing and Lynn and Lynda Miller and Hilda Raz outdid themselves. Thank you, my dear, dear friends. The launch reading was dedicated in loving memory of Lisa Lenard Cook. I wish she could have been there, but her loving presence was felt by all who knew her. I think she may have even told me what to read! Many thanks to all who came. For all those who couldn’t make it on a busy Fourth of July weekend, you can follow my events on this website and join me on another day....
read moreWhy I Write About Turkey
When my husband, Arthur, and I returned from Greece, the only place I wanted to visit was Turkey. The benevolent friends who loaned us their home in Monemvasia in the Peloponnese traveled back and forth to Turkey frequently. Something about their tales inspired me to begin an investigation into a trip that would take us on an adventure we had not found anywhere before or since. Arthur was not terribly interested in Turkey at first. “Why do you want to go there,” he asked. “Why not France or Spain?” “I’ve already been to France and Spain,” I...
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