Scott Skinner
A Bay Area writer of literary fiction, poetry, and screenplays — and the author of the debut novel The Break-In. His work notices the things people don't look at, and doesn't flinch when it finds them.
Honesty without self-pity.
Across fiction, poetry, and screenwriting, Scott chases the specific, almost clinical detail that cracks something open — and then leaves it where it lies. The murky vase water nobody changes. The freeway home at night. The dark joke that turns out to be the truest thing said.
He writes about addiction and recovery, fatherhood and failure, the body and time — heavy territory approached with a matter-of-fact closeness that lands harder than drama. Nothing gets moralized; nothing gets a neat bow.
Four rooms, one voice.
Fiction
Literary short stories and the novel The Break-In — interior, unflinching, and quietly funny.
Read the stories →Poetry
Fragmented, staccato, image-stacking work that builds feeling by accumulation rather than argument.
Read the poems →Screenplays
Bay Area comedy with a quick ear for dialogue and subtext. Start with Figure It Out.
Read the screenplay →Children's
Illustrated books for the youngest readers — the Bigsby series.
Meet Bigsby →