Terese Svoboda is the translator of CLEANED THE CROCODILE'S TEETH:
NUER SONG (Greenfield Review Press, 1985) and the author of All
Aberration (University of Georgia Press, 1985), Laughing Africa
(University of Iowa Press, 1991), Treason (Zoo Press, 2003), Mere
Mortals (University of Georgia Press, 2009), Weapons Grade
(University of Arkansas, 2009), and WHEN THE NEXT BIG WAR BLOWS
DOWN THE VALLEY: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS (Anhinga Press, 2015), and
the chapbook Dogs Are Not Cats. A recent Guggenheim recipient, she
has won the Iowa Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award and the
Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and a New
York Foundation for the Arts grant.
A fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, Yaddo, the James Merrill House,
MacDowell, and the NEH, she also received a PEN/Columbia fellowship
to translate Nuer song. She has taught at Williams, Columbia's
School of the Arts, Southampton/Stony Brook, the New School, San
Francisco State, William and Mary, Fairleigh Dickinson, Sarah
Lawrence, Bennington, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the
Universities of Tampa, Miami, and Hawaii, Fordham, and Wichita
State, in St. Petersburg and Kenya for the Summer Literary Program,
and held the McGee Professor at Davidson College. Also the author
of six books of fiction, a memoir, and a book of translation from
the Nuer, she will publish a biography of the radical poet Lola
Ridge in 2016.
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