Arnold Skemer (born 1946), is an American

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and

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. Skemer has operated

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since 1985. He also publishes ''ZYX'' (begun in 1990), a small

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that publishes poetry, short fictions, commentary on innovative fiction and small press matters, and reviews. It appears 2-3 times a year. Skemer is also the author of eight published novels, including an ambitious ongoing series where each title is a letter of the alphabet (C, D, H etc.).

Biography

He was born in the

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, on the Grand Concourse and moved to

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, New York, in 1957. He graduated from

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in 1968.

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