Terese Svoboda

Svoboda is the author of nine books of poetry, eight novels, three collections of short fiction, a biography, a memoir and a book of translations from the Nuer.

She graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts.{{Cite web |title="Dog on Fire" by Terese Svoboda '78 Coming Soon from Flyover Fiction {{!}} School of the Arts |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/dog-fire-terese-svoboda-78-coming-soon-flyover-fiction |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=arts.columbia.edu}} She was Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawaii.{{Cite web |title=Visiting Writers and Distinguished Writers in Residence – Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=https://english.hawaii.edu/visiting-writers/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |language=en-US}} and McGee Visiting professor of writing at Davidson College.{{Cite web |title=Program: English - Davidson College - Acalog ACMS™ |url=https://catalog.davidson.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=8&poid=318 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=catalog.davidson.edu}} Wichita State Distinguished Writer in Residence,{{Cite web |title=Visiting Distinguished Writers Program |url=https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_las/english/creativewriting/visiting_writers.php |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.wichita.edu}} University of Miami,{{Cite web |title=‌‌Visiting Writers and Poets |url=https://english.as.miami.edu/creative-writing/creative-writing-faculty/visiting-writers-and-poets/index.html |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=english.as.miami.edu |language=en}} Columbia University School of the Arts.{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda {{!}} Superstition Review |url=https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue5/interviews/teresesvoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=superstitionreview.asu.edu}} Atlantic Center for the Arts Pabst Endowed Chair,{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/mentoring-artist/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=Atlantic Center for the Arts |language=en-US}}

The opera Wet, for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005.{{cite web|title=Anne Lebaron and Terese Svoboda: Wet|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/anne-lebaron-and-terese-svoboda-wet|publisher=REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater). redcat.org|access-date=2018-01-01}} Her fourteen works in video have won numerous awards and are distributed worldwide.{{cite web|title=Terese Svoboda|date=17 June 2011 |url=https://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/terese-svoboda|publisher=Experimental Television Center|access-date=2023-05-13}}{{cite news|title=Terese Svoboda|url=http://www.vtape.org/artist?ai=195}} In writing about her work, reviewers have noted her frequent use of humor to address dire subjects,{{cite news|title=Pirate Talk or Mermalade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9826318-0-5}} her interest in fabulism,{{cite news|title=Tin God|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8032-4331-6}} and her lyrical use of language, especially as a poet writing prose.{{cite web|title=A Drink Called Paradise|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58243-001-0}}{{cite web|title=Weapons Grade|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55728-906-3}}

An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed "exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking."{{cite web|title=An interview with Ladette Randolph|url=http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tsvoboda/2011/10/an-interview-with-ladette-randolph/|website=www.thenervousbreakdown.com|date=October 2011 |access-date=16 October 2014}} Her travels for the Smithsonian's Anthropology Film Archive to the South Pacific and the South Sudan provide additional settings.{{Cite web |title=Research film study of the Cook Islands {{!}} Collection: HSFA.1975.07 |url=https://sova.si.edu/record/hsfa.1975.07?q=Sound+films&t=C |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=sova.si.edu}} Postwar Japan is the location for her memoir about executions of U.S. servicemen by U.S. authorities.{{Cite web |date= |title=Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan by Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781555974909 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}

Her work has appeared in AGNI,{{Cite web |date=2018-01-30 |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=AGNI Online |language=en}} Granta,{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://granta.com/contributor/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Granta |language=en-US}} The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine |last=Svoboda |first=Terese |date=2012-09-03 |title=Neighborhood Watch |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/10/neighborhood-watch-3 |access-date=2024-11-05 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}} The Atlantic, Poetry,{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2024-05-01 |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}} The New York Times, Narrative,{{Cite web |last=Svoboda |first=Terese |date=2008-06-06 |title=Terese Svoboda |work=Narrative Magazine |url=https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |language=en}} Slate, Paris Review.{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/authors/5660/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}} 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.{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://www.theindependent.com/news/abbott-sisters-living-legacy/article_33be6796-3dcb-5e4b-993b-f7aad399be30.html?mode=jqm|website=www.theindependent.com| date=17 March 2008 }} She was consulting producer for "The Quilted Conscience," a PBS documentary on South Sudanese girls learning to quilt with Nebraskan women.{{cite web|title=Nuer scholarship|url=http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2013/07/from-the-desk-of-terese-svoboda.htm|website=nebraskapress.typepad.com}}

• 1973 Hannah del Vecchio Award in Playwriting
• 1974 PEN/Columbia Translation Fellow
• 1978 National Endowment for the Humanities grant in translation
• 1983 Creative Artist Public Service fellow
• 1985 Emily Dickinson Award, Poetry Society of America
• 1987 Cecil Hemley Award, Poetry Society of America
• 1988 Jerome Foundation Fellow{{Cite web |title=Past Grantees {{!}} Jerome Foundation |url=https://www.jeromefdn.org/past-grantees?qt-apply_login=1&page=266 |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.jeromefdn.org |language=en}}
• 1990 Iowa Poetry Prize{{Cite web |title=Laughing Africa {{!}} University of Iowa Press - The University of Iowa |url=https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/laughing-africa |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=uipress.uiowa.edu |language=en}}
• 1990 Appleman Foundation grant for video
• 1990 New York State Council for the Arts grant for video{{Cite web |title=Guide to the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program records, [ca. 1960-2011] |url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08230.html |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=rmc.library.cornell.edu}}
• 1992 Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance, co-director/writer of an ITVS-produced video selected by The Getty as one of the best two experimental biographies of the decade{{cite web|title=Margaret Sanger|url=http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c147.shtml|website=www.wmm.com}}
• 1994 Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
• 1998, 1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship
• 1998 Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction, Sewanee Writing Conference{{Cite web |title=Sewanee Writers' Conference • Right Here • The University of the South |url=https://www.sewaneewriters.org/right-here/sewanee-writers.html |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.sewaneewriters.org}}
• 2003 Pushcart Prize for an essay{{Cite book |url=https://catalog.lapl.org/?section=resource&resourceid=1078448385 |title=Los Angeles Public Library : Pushcart prize XXVIII : best of the small presses |date=2004 |isbn=978-1-888889-36-9 |language=en}}
• 2005 Appleman Foundation for WET libretto{{Cite web |title=Scene4 Magazine: NYC Opera - The Voices of Vox {{!}} Karren Alenier |url=https://www.scene4.com/archivesqv6/jan-2008/html/karrenalenier0108.html |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.scene4.com}}
• 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize{{Cite web |title=Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Now Open for Submissions {{!}} Graywolf Press |url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/news/graywolf-press-nonfiction-prize-now-open-submissions |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.graywolfpress.org}}
• 2008 Best of Japan 2008 in the Japan Times for Black Glasses Like Clark Kent{{Cite web |title=japan times |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2008/12/14/books/book-reviews/ready-for-a-little-yuletide-reading-6/}}
• 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction{{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation… |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=en-US}}
• 2013 Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund{{Cite web |title=Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. : Funding |url=https://demingfund.org/funding-pd-26.php |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=demingfund.org |language=en}}
• 2015 [https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows James Merrill House] Fellowship
• 2024 [https://www.umasspress.com/juniper-prizes/ Juniper Prize]

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,{{cite web|title=RedCat|url=http://www.redcat.org/event/proto-ethnographic-works|website=www.redcat.org}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Between Word and Image: A Video Exhibition at the MOMA |url=https://poetshouse.org/event/between-word-and-image-a-video-exhibition-at-the-moma/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=Poets House}} an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.{{Cite web |last=etc_admin_1 |date=2011-06-17 |title=Terese Svoboda |url=https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terese-svoboda |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=www.videohistoryproject.org}} Her work is distributed by Vtape.{{Cite web |title=Artist {{!}} Vtape |url=https://vtape.org/artist?ai=195 |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=vtape.org}}

• All Aberration. {{ISBN|0-8203-0807-2}} / {{ISBN|978-0-87745-272-0}} / eBook {{ISBN|978-1-58729-235-4}}
• Laughing Africa. Iowa Prize in Poetry, {{ISBN|978-0-87745-272-0}} / {{ISBN|9780877452805}} / e{{ISBN|978-1-58729-2354}}
• Mere Mortals. {{ISBN|0820334243}} / {{ISBN|9780820334240}}
• Treason {{ISBN|0970817762}} / {{ISBN|9780970817761}}
• Weapons Grade. {{ISBN|1557289069}} / {{ISBN|9781557289063}}
• Dogs Are Not Cats (chapbook). {{ISBN|9780988549036}}
• When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected and New Poems. {{ISBN|1934695459}} / {{ISBN|9781934695456}}
• Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship. {{ISBN|9781911335184}}
• Theatrix: Poetry Plays. {{ISBN|1934695696}}

• Cannibal. Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Fiction Prize, {{ISBN|0814780121}}
• A Drink Called Paradise. {{ISBN|1582430012}} / {{ISBN|9781582430010}}
• Tin God. John Gardner Fiction book Award Finalist, {{ISBN|9780803245754}}
• Pirate Talk or Mermalade. {{ISBN|978-0-982631-80-5}}
• Bohemian Girl. Booklist Ten Best Westerns 2012, {{ISBN|9780803226821}}
• Dog on Fire. {{ISBN|9781496235169}}
• Roxy and Coco. {{ISBN|9781959000068}}

• Trailer Girl and Other Stories. {{ISBN|1582430853}} / {{ISBN|9781582430850}}
• Great American Desert. {{ISBN|978-0814255209}}
• The Long Swim. Juniper Prize for Fiction {{ISBN|978-1-62534-807-4}}{{Cite news |last=Leichter |first=Hilary |date=2024-03-08 |title=Bad Parents, Beware. These Harpy Sisters Are Coming for You. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/books/review/terese-svoboda-long-swim-roxy-coco.html |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

;Biography

• Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet. {{ISBN|9781943156573}}

;Memoirs

• Black Glasses Like Clark Kent. Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. {{ISBN|9781555974909}}

;Translations

• Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth. (Nuer) {{ISBN|978-0912678634}}

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• [https://prickofthespindle.org/2008/06/23/removing-the-sepia-tint-an-interview-with-terese-svoboda-author-of-black-glasses-like-clark-kent-a-gis-secret-from-postwar-japan/ "Removing the sepia-tint: an Interview with Terese Svoboda," Prick of the Spindle. ]
• [http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/like-prions-an-interview-with-terese-svoboda-by-shya-scanlon/ "Like Prions: An Interview with Terese Svoboda by Shya Scanlon" ]
• [http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue5/interviews/teresesvoboda "Terese Svoboda" ]

• [http://www.teresesvoboda.com/ Author's Website]
• [http://www.fictionaut.com/users/terese-svoboda Terese Svoboda on Fictionaut]
• [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/242840 Caned]
• {{Cite web |title=Terese Svoboda – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation… |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/terese-svoboda/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |language=en-US}}

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