Linda Stern Zisquit

Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator.

Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY.

[4] She is married to the lawyer Donald Zisquit, and is the mother of five children.

She also runs the ArtSpace Gallery at her home in Jerusalem's German Colony.

[6] She has published five collections of original poetry, most recently Return from Elsewhere (co-winner of the Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014) and Havoc: New & Selected Poems (2013) as well as several volumes of English translations of Hebrew poetry, including among them the poems of Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (2009), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.