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Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.
Svoboda is the author of nine collections of poetry, six novels, three collections of short fiction, a memoir and a book of translations from the Nuer.
She graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts. [1] She was Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawaii. [2] and McGee Visiting Professor of Writing at Davidson College. [3] She taught at Columbia University School of the Arts. [4]
The opera Wet, for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005. [5] Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide. [6] [7] In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects, [8] her interest in fabulism, [9] and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose. [10] [11]
An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed “exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking.” [12] Her travels for the Smithsonian's Anthropology Film Archive to the South Pacific and the South Sudan provide additional settings. Postwar Japan is the location for her memoir about executions of U.S. servicemen by U.S. authorities. [13]
Her work has appeared in AGNI , [14] Granta, [15] The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, [16] The New York Times, Narrative, [17] Slate, Paris Review. [18] The New York Post described her memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent as "astounding"; The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial".
After translating the songs of the Nuer people of the South Sudan on a PEN/Columbia Fellowship, she founded a scholarship for Nuer high school students in Nebraska. [19] She was consulting producer for "The Quilted Conscience," a PBS documentary on South Sudanese girls learning to quilt with Nebraskan women. [20]
The highlights of Svoboda's video work include exhibition in Exchange and Evolution as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibition at RedCat, [22] Ars Electronica, PBS, MoMA, WNYC, L.A.C.E., Lifestyle TV, Berlin Videofest, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, AFI, Long Beach Museum of Art, New American Makers, Athens Film Festival, Ohio Film Festival, American Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival (Director's Choice), L.A. Freewaves, Pacific Film Archives, Columbus Film Festival, and Worldwide Video Festival. She also co-curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art and Poets House, an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.
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