Publications and Prizes
Prizes Won:
"Beautiful Soon Enough" won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize, (University of Alabama Press/2009.) Other honors include Finalist for The National Poetry series 2015, the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, 8 Pushcart Prize nominations, & 2 Pushcart “special mention citations,” the Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Award, Persimmon Tree Magazine's International Poetry Award, Aeolian Harp Anthology #1 (Glass Lyre Press,) .
Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews
More Information
Listed as:
Fiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
European American
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English, French
Born in:
New York City, NY
Raised in:
NYC & Paris
work_excerpt:
Newest book: BEFORE THE DROUGHT" (Glass Lyre Press/2017) ...Advance praise for "Before The Drought"/Glass Lyre Press/2017: Before the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and blood’s hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating balcony, and a field of cellos, but it is a world in peril, now and in the time to come, on the night of the Paris massacres and in a poisoned future . In the City of Light, Berdeshevsky writes poems commensurate with her vision, poems that know to ask How close is death, how near is God? Hers is a book to read at the precipice on which we stand. — Carolyn Forché
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Last updated: Jul 11, 2018