Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.
[6] Atlantic Center for the Arts Pabst Endowed Chair,[7] The opera Wet, for which she wrote the libretto, premiered at RedCat at L.A. Disney Hall in 2005.
[13][14] An ardent unconventional feminist, she often writes about women in the Midwest in a way that has been termed "exotic, sophisticated, and heartbreaking.
[17] Her work has appeared in AGNI,[18] Granta,[19] The New Yorker,[20] The Atlantic, Poetry,[21] The New York Times, Narrative,[22] Slate, Paris Review.
She also co-curated "Between Word and Image" for the Museum of Modern Art and Poets House,[38] an exhibition that traveled to Banff and the Northwest Film Center.