your word: Teen Creative Writing Residency

2008 Master Writers in Residence

Terese Svoboda, Creative Nonfiction/Memoir

Terese Svoboda was born and raised in Nebraska. Her nine published books include fiction: Tin God (U of Nebraska Press, 2006), Trailer Girl and Other Stories, A Drink Called Paradise (Counterpoint Press), Cannibal (NYU Press); poetry: Mere Mortals (U of Georgia), Laughing Africa (U of Iowa), All Aberration (U of Georgia), Treason (Zoo Press); and translations: Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth (Greenfield Review Press). Her work has been selected for the Writer's Choice column in the NY Times Book Review, Great Lakes New Writers Award, an NEH grant in translation, VLS Best Summer Books, and one of SPIN's books of the year. She has taught at William and Mary, Williams College, San Francisco State, Sarah Lawrence, and University of Hawaii. In 2008, her memoir Black Glasses Like Clark Kent will be published by Graywolf Press.

Svoboda has acted as producer for the Columbia Translation Series and the Voices and Visions series. She has produced poetry videos and documentaries that have aired on PBS, internationally, and have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and the Getty. She curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art. Her libretto for WET, a chamber opera for Death and five voices, premiered at Disney's RedCat performance space in L.A. in 2005. She also writes proposals for new technology. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

* For more information about Terese Svoboda, please visit http://www.blueflowerarts.com/tsvoboda.html