Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
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About Terese Svoboda
Terese 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 people of South Sudan.
Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide. In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects, her interest in fabulism, and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose.
Her work has appeared in AGNI, Granta, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New York Times, Narrative, Slate, and Paris Review. 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."
