Arnold Skemer, born in 1946, is an American novelist and publisher. Skemer has operated Phrygian Press since 1985. He also publishes ZYX (begun in 1990), a small xerographic magazine that publishes poetry, short fictions, commentary on innovative fiction and small press matters, and reviews. It appears 2-3 times a year.
He was born in the Bronx, New York, on the Grand Concourse and moved to Queens, New York, in 1957. He graduated from Queens College in 1968.