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Linda Stern Zisquit [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Jerusalem
Israel
IL
Email: 
Lindazisquit@gmail.com
Bio: 

Five full-length collections of my poetry have been published, most recently Return from Elsewhere (Outriders Poetry Project, co-winner, 2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2013). A chapbook "From the Notebooks of Korah's Daughter" was published in 2019 (New Walk Editions, Leicester & Nottingham, UK). I have just completed "Psalmwork," my sixth full-length collection. My translations from Hebrew poetry include Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach, Let the Words, an expanded collection of Wallach's poetry, and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam. For many years I was Associate Professor of Poetry at Bar Ilan University, and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan. I run Artspace Gallery representing contemporary local artists in Jerusalem, Israel.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Hebrew
Favorite authors: 
Emily Dickinson, Robert Creeley, Louise Gluck, Alice Oswald
Born in: 
Buffalo, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Buffalo, NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.artspacegallery.co.il [2]
Prizes won: 

Co-winner Outriders Poetry Project, 2014; finalist in the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry; NEA Translation Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowships, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Grant, shortlisted for a PEN Translation Award, finalist several times for the Poetry Society's work-in-progress award.

What I'm reading now: 
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
Identifies as: 
Jewish
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/linda_stern_zisquit [2] https://www.artspacegallery.co.il