Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator. [1] [2] She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.
Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo. [3] In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. [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. [5]
Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar Ilan University where she is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program. [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. [7]
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link)Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator. [1] [2] She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.
Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo. [3] In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. [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. [5]
Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar Ilan University where she is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program. [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. [7]
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