Skye Van Saun grew up in Chatham, New Jersey and is a poet, writer, photographer and musician. She returned to school in 2001 to complete her BA in psychology at Drew University followed by her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College that she received in 2006. She is an advocate for victims of domestic violence and has worked in the Superior Court of NJ, Domestic Violence Unit, taught poetry to inmates at Valhalla Prison, and served as guest speaker and featured reader for many groups and events including the Women’s History Conference “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives,” under the category: “Unspeakable Violence” at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Gun Violence Awareness Conference, Harvard University. She recently finished a chapbook, Versus Verses, and her first memoir, Moving Violations, both about her own experience with domestic violence. Her work has also appeared in Lumina, Insanity’s Horse and Art Not Guns. Skye has been invited to be a Dodge Poetry Festival poet to read her work at what has become the largest poetry gathering in the world (also known as Wordstock) in late September, 2008. She also recently completed a photo montage of spring in Frenchtown, NJ where she lives by the Delaware River with her dogs, cats, guitars and a canoe. “Hide Nor Hair,” her poem about a young girl hiding behind her hair to avoid confrontation, appears in Submerged.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin