–CURRICULUM VITAE

Skadi meic Beorh

Curriculum Vitae

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Skadi meic Beorh is a writer and editor who has authored the fantasy novel To Be Saved from Witches (Cosmos Books, 2010), the poetry collection Emhain Macha Dark Rain (Rebel Satori Press, 2009), the nostalgic story collection Always After Thieves Watch: Stories of Childhood & Other Fantasies (WildSide Press), and the reader-friendly dictionary Pirate Lingo: Piratical Figures of Speech (Second Edition, WildSide Press). His poetry, essays, and stories regularly appear in print anthologies and magazines worldwide. Much more can be found at skadimeicbeorh.wordpress.com

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Media

Author, Cosmos Books, WildSide Press, 2010

Author, Rebel Satori Press, 2009

Author, Wildside Press, 2009

Author, Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2010

Writer, SAT Reasoning Test (SAT Kahuna), June 2008

Staff Writer, Twoday Magazine, March 2008-February 2009

Contributing Editor, The Willows, literary magazine, May 2007-April 2009

Contributing Editor, Romantics Quarterly, August 2002-December 2004

Assistant to Pulitzer author Peter Taylor, January-April, 1993 & 1994

Freelance Copyeditor/Ghostwriter/Proofreader, 1988-present

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Travels

India, 1992; Ireland, 1997-1998; American Southwest, 1988-90, 1996, 2001-02

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Literary Societies

Dark Worlds Club  2008

The Society of Fantasistes  2007

The Ghost Story Society  2005

OBOD  1993

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Forthcoming Books

To Be Saved from Witches, Cosmos Books; Emhain Macha Dark Rain, Rebel Satori Press; Uncle Carbuncle’s Book of Freaky Beasts, Sam’s Dot Publishing

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Books Published

Always After Thieves Watch: Stories of Childhood & Other Fantasies, Wildside Press; Pirate Lingo: Piratical Figures of Speech, Expanded Second Edition, Wildside Press

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Anthologies

Ruins: Terra, “The Ruin”; Desolate Places, “Ozymandias Redux”; Bound For Evil, “The Devil & Nathaniel Hawthorne”; Candlelight Vol. I, “Wall of Dreamings”; Candlelight Vol. II, “Hobbyhorse, Hobbyhorse, Where Have You Been?”; Dark Worlds #4, “Redneck Meatwagon”; Bump in the Night (online),“Hobbyhorse, Hobbyhorse, Where Have You Been?”; Straying from the Path (online),“Hood”

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Journals & Periodicals

The Ink Well, 1977, “Story Time”; The Fountain of Youth, 1978, “The Dukes of Kennington”; The Pirate’s Chest, 1981; “The Course of Man,” “Exhortation,” “Nam Thoughts,” “A Voice from the Past, a Voice to the Future,” “Almost Zero”; The Pirate’s Chest, 1982, “Enigma,” “Electrical Treachery”; The Pirate’s Chest, 1983, “Warrior Girl,” “Victor,” “Pyre Amid,” “Decision Determined,” “Nitefast: A Vigil Prayer,” “A Servant’s Prayer,” “Neal”; Cornerstone Magazine, Vol II, Issue 64, 1983, “I Kneel Down by the River There”; Pensacola Runners’ Association Newsletter, Jan. 1983, “I Run On”; The Pirate’s Chest, 1984, “Dawn of Redemption,” “Deep and Dark Within My Soul,” “Children Are the Kingdom’s Pride,” “Samson’s Prayer,” “Communion,” “The Longing”; Newswave Pro-Aggressive News, 1986, “Snow in Miami”; The Pig Paper #32, 1987, “Sid Vicious”; Two Ultras ’87, “Scorch Scream”; Something for Nothing #3, 1988, “The Least of These,” “Ecstasy”; The Annunciation, Vol. 5, #24, 1988, “Christmas Lights”; Emerald Coast Review, Vol I, Issue One, 1989, “Seraphyre”; Something for Nothing #13, July 1989, “Eve! Damn It!”; Daisy Chains of Freedom, 1990, “Mary’s Tears”; Different Drummer, Spring 1990, “Night is Light,” “Hold Me * Save Me”; New Forces, May 1990, “The Return”; Grapevine, Vol IV, Issue I, 1990, “Love Warriors,” “Sick 66”; Grapevine Vol IV, Issue II, 1990, “The Selfish are Strange”; Grapevine, Vol IV, Issue III, 1991, “Prophet,” “And for Reason”; Grapevine, Vol V, Issue I, 1991, “Alone Alone,” “Vevleo,” “Paraclete”; Flagler Review, Spring 1993, “Johnson,” “To Any Earth Mama”; The Pensacola News Journal, Oct. 31, 1998, editorial, “A Short History of Halloween for Children”; The Theolog, May 2002, “Kresge Chaparral”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol II, Issue I, “Quiet Ympne of Laterede Sumer,” “Quiet Sonnebreken in Deed Winter Morne”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol II, Issue II, “Irish Spring”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol II, Issue III, “Water,” “Lines for Mary W. S.,” “What a Farmer from Glenties Said”; Touchstone, Issue No. 84, February 2003, “To Our Keepers of Spell and of Song”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. II, Issue IV, “A Chimney In Time Saves Nine,” “End of this Age: Reconciliation,” “Nakadakish”; Poetry Cornwall, Vol. 2, Num. 2: 2003, “Cornish Fires”; Poetry Cornwall, Vol. 3, Num. 1: 2004, “Merlin”; Poetry Cornwall, Vol. 3, Num. 2: 2004, “Hallow Men”; Bardsong, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Midwinter 2004, “Dathi’s Cry” and “The Awakening”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. III, Issue I, “Raping Heaven”; Bardsong, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Midsummer 2005, “The Forgotten Land”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. III, Issue II, “Diary of a Spinner Girl,” “Scythian Prayer of Reborn”; Neovictorian/Cochlea, Vol VII, No. 2, “Near the Gate,” “Eutopia”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. III, Issue III, “Water-Blacks,” “Chronicle of a Conflagration”; Bardsong, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Midwinter 2005, “Solstice Battle In Winter”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. III, Issue IV, “Concerning Another Chimney,” “A Bard Returns to the Ancient City to Find the Ceremony of Innocence Drowned,” “City Park, New Orleans,” “Morphosis”; Penny Dreadful #15, “Fetch-Song”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. IV, Issue I, “There Be Dragons,” “Song of the Goblin,” “The Fairy Chair,” “The Ruin,” “A Story of Oberon, Cyning of Faery”; Romantics Quarterly, Vol. IV, Issue II, “The Pumpkin Carver of Mercantile Square,” “Crúaích,” “Victory Ympne,” “Time of Rest,” “Gnomic Legend”; Bleeding Quill, #3 Summer 2006, “Beyond the Pale”; Ballista, Issue 1, Autumn/Winter 2006, “He’s Waiting For Her…”; Twisted Tongue, November 2006, “Glen of the Downs: A Tale of Irish Terror, Part I”; Sinister Tales, Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2006, “The Stunned House”; Black Petals, Issue 37, Fall 2006, “The Very Big House Up On Waterstone Street”; Black Petals, Issue 38, Winter 2007, “Blissful House on Blysworth Street”; Twisted Tongue, February 2007, “Glen of the Downs: A Tale of Irish Terror, Part II”; Black Petals, Issue 39, Spring 2007, “A Sunlit Room”; Brilliant! Issue Two, June 2007, “Reginald”; Bringing Sonnets Back, Premier Issue, July 2007, “Hood” and “A File Visits Queen Maeve”; The Willows, July 2007, “The Stunned House” (reprint); Black Petals Issue 40, Summer 2007, “Destruction at Noonday”; Aoife’s Kiss, September 2007, “Long Man in Crimson”; Whispers of Wickedness, “Up from Sickness There to Air” The Willows, September 2007, “Sabbatical at Teach Rithe Inn”; Skive No. 6, December 2007, “Treasure”; Beyond Centauri, January 2008, “Always After Thieves Watch” ; Beyond Centauri, April 2008, “Pup & the Winter Solstice Shoes”; The Willows, January 2008, “A Reason for Horror”; The Willows, March 2008, “Ankou”; SAT Kahuna, “Popular But Socially Unacceptable”; The Willows, May/June 2008, “Notes for the Transcendent Writer, or, Hylo-Idealism in Action”; Twoday Magazine, Aug. 2008, “Can You Be Complete Without A Partner?” & “The Art of Touch”; Twisted Tongue, Issue 11, “Lord Dunsany’s Evil, Obscure Windows”; Skive, Issue 9, “Buried”; The Willows, Sept/Oct 2008, “Halloween Raid” and “The Poetic Genius In Mythopoïetic Creation”; Illumen, Autumn 2008, “A Thieving Primer”; Twoday Magazine, Oct. 2008, “Ireland: A Truly Natural Beauty”; Ashe Journal, Incarnation 7.2,  “Hallow Men” and “All Hallows Eve” and “Emhain Macha Dark Rain”; Twoday Magazine, Dec. 2008, “Keeping Long-Distance Love Alive”; Twoday Magazine, Feb. 2009, “Cooking As A Couple: Bringing Sexy Back in the Kitchen” (Sexy, Sexy Cornbread) and “Surviving a Broken Heart”; The Willows, Nov/Dec 2008, “Pinprick”; Ethereal Tales, Issue 2, Jan. 2009, “Slim Hemlock & the Giants of Knoll”; Sounds of the Night, Feb 2009, “My Horse Runs Free”; Dark Horizons 54 (British Fantasy Society), “Chronicle of a Conflagration”; Morpheus Tales, Issue 5, “The Witch of Faith Lane”; Ekakshara 2009, Premiere Issue, “Dance with Kali”; Theaker’s Quarterly, Issue 30, “The Periodic Honking of the Fruit-Seller’s Truck” (Thomas & Beorh); Twisted Tongue, Issue 13, “Pumpkin Carver of Mercantile Square” and “The Floating Hat”; House of Horror #6, Halloween 2009 (online), “Nag’s Head”

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Forthcoming Journals, Anthologies, & Periodicals

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Academia

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy; University of South Alabama, May 2001

Claremont School of Theology, Los Angeles, 2001-2002