Skip Rhudy

Skip Rhudy

Skip Rhudy grew up surfing in Port Aransas, Texas. He has translated poetry and prose from the German and translated Wolfgang Hilbig’s novella Die Weiber for his master’s thesis in 1990 at UT Austin. His short stories were published in numerous small press magazines in the mid 1990s, and his novella One Punk Summer was published in 1993 and reprinted in2021.

Skip works as a software developer. He holds a patent in TCP/IP acceleration, has a post graduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence, and is building an airplane. He and his wife live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have two daughters, three dogs, and a horse named Pierre.

Books by Skip Rhudy

Under the Gulf Coast Sun

By Skip Rhudy

Under the Gulf Coast Sun

Under the Gulf Coast Sun is a coming-of-age novel by Skip Rhudy set against the sun-soaked beaches of Port Aransas, Texas, in 1978. Kassie Hernandez is aiming for a career in the space program and is not looking for anything else. Then she meets a surfer named Connor O’Reilly at one of the island’s Pod House parties, and the summer stops going the way she planned. A coming-of-age tale set against the sun-soaked beaches of 1970s Port Aransas, Rhudy weaves a love letter to the people and culture of the Texas coast.