John Haskell (author)
# John Haskell (author)

John Haskell (born February 10, 1958) is an American writer and editor.

He is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock (FSG, 2003), and the novels The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (Graywolf Press, 2017), Out of My Skin (FSG, 2009), and American Purgatorio (FSG, 2005). His stories and essays have appeared on the radio (The Next Big Thing, Studio 360), in books (The Show You'll Never Forget, Heavy Rotation, All the More Real), and in publications including A Public Space, n+1, Conjunctions, McSweeney's,) and Vice.

Haskell has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Cal Arts, and the Leipzig University. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

## Works

### Novels

* The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (Graywolf Press, 2017)
* Out of My Skin: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)
* American Purgatorio: A Novel (FSG, 2005)

### Short-Story Collections

* I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories (FSG, 2003)
