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Sklenicka was raised in Santa Maria, California, attended college California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo and received a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov, in 1986. While raising her two children, Katherine Ryan and Robert Ryan, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin she taught literature and creative writing at Marquette University and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She now devotes herself to writing and rural living near the Russian River in northern California with poet and novelist R. M. Ryan, author of Vaudeville in the Dark and There's a Man with a Gun Over There and other books. The publication of her biography of Carver, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Magazine and a notable book by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and the Seattle Times, followed more than a decade of interviews with Carver's friends, family and writing colleagues.  Among the journals to which Sklenicka has contributed are Confrontation, South Atlantic Quarterly, Iowa Woman, and Sou'wester. 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