Skels A Novel

Imagining a world wherein ambulance drivers transport "skels," or the soulsf dead writers, through the underworld, the author pens a unique novel setn 1979 New York that merges the ancient with the modern. Original.

Maggie Dubris is the author of In the Dust Zone, Skels, and Weep Not, My Wanton. Her poem, “WillieWorld,” first published as a chapbook by Richard Hell’s Cuz Editions, is now available as an ebook.

For ten years she was guitarist and a principal songwriter for the all-female band Homer Erotic, performing at NYC clubs and festivals in Tampa and Las Vegas. In 2010 she was awarded a NYFA fellowship in music for her soundscape work, which has been featured as the sound element in The Vanishing Birds Project and The Vanishing Oceans Project, collaborative installations created with the artist Linda Byrne that have been exhibited in New York and Pittsburgh.

Maggie worked for twenty years as a full-time 911 paramedic in the Times Square district in New York City, and responded to the Trade Center on September 11th. She is currently employed as a professional hypnotist and a paramedic on film and TV sets. She also has a black belt in karate, and worked part-time for Kids Kicking Cancer as a martial arts health care worker.