Terese Svoboda

Terese Svoboda's writing has been featured in the New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, among many other publications. She has published four novels, a collection of short stories, a memoir, a book of translation and five books of poetry: Weapons Grade: Poems (2009), All Aberration (2009), Treason (2003), Mere Mortals: Poems (1995), and Laughing Africa (1990). Her honors include the O. Henry Prize for the short story, the Pushcart Prize, a translation NEH fellowship, and the Iowa Prize in Poetry. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Fordham, Williams, the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii, the New School, and other schools around the world. Before obtaining her MFA at Columbia, she filmed dance in the Cook Islands and traveled to Sudan, living with the Nuer people.

Svoboda acted as producer for the Columbia Translation Series and the PBS Voices and Visions series. She also created ten poetry videos and documentaries that have been shown on PBS, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty and internationally. Her libretto for WET, a chamber opera, premiered at Disney's RedCat performance space in L.A. in November 2005.

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