A Ukrainian by birth, Askold Skalsky’s travel credentials include escaping with his life from what used to be Yugoslavia and with his money from what still is Greece and Italy. Lately he has been living quietly in Maryland. Last year he was published in The English Chicago Review, One Trick Pony, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Tellus. One of his pet peeves is having to write any bio that is other than the dull roll-call of publications and insincere phrases of editorial bootlicking.
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