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Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator. She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.
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Biography
Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo. In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. She is married to the lawyer Donald Zisquit, and is the mother of five children. She also runs the ArtSpace Gallery in Jerusalem's German Colony.
Literary career
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. Additionally, 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 (Sheep Meadow Press, Rhinebeck, NY, 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 (Sheep Meadow Press, 1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (Toby Press, New Milford, CT, 2009), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.
Published works
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