Writer

Don Skoog has been publishing articles and books on music in magazines like Latin Beat, American Visions, and Percussive Notes since 1994. He has recently expanded into literary and scholarly publications with articles on words and music as related to Emily Dickinson. As well as his Batá Drumming; The Instruments, the Rhythms, and the People Who Play Them, he will soon be publishing Orisha Song and Drum; The Melodies and Rhythms of the Oru Cantado and Oru Égun. He currently writing a book of essays, Emily Dickinson and Music, and the book and score for the opera, War Between the Houses. He writes novels under another name.

• Making Emily Sing, Exploring the relationship between Poetical and Musical Time in setting Dickinson's poetry into song. The Emily Dickinson International Society Journal. Volume XXXIV. Number1. 2025.
• Emily as Muse. The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. May, 2025.
• Introduction to Arabic Music, Part One, the rhythms. In Arabic. UChicago Majalla. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. Issue 4. Winter, 2020.
• Batá Drumming : The Instruments, the Rhythms, and the People Who Play Them : the Oru Seco, with Alejandro Carvajal Guerra (2010). Published by CMP Press.