Linda Stern Zisquit () is an American-born

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i poet and translator. She teaches poetry,

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and poetry translation at

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Biography

Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in

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. She studied at

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and, later, at

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and

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. In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in

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. 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.

Literary career

Zisquit teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at

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where she is Associate Professor and Poetry Coordinator for the Shaindy Rudoff MA in Creative Writing Program. She has published five collections of original poetry, most recently ''Return from Elsewhere'' (co-winner of the

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, 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

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(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.

Published works

Poetry collections

* Ritual Bath (Broken Moon Press, Seattle, WA, 1993) * Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY, 1996) * The Face in the Window (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2005) * Havoc: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, Rhinebeck, NY, 2013) * Return from Elsewhere (Outriders Poetry Project, Buffalo, NY, 2014)

Translation

* Open-Eyed Land: Desert Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Schocken Press, Tel Aviv, 1992) * The Book of Ruth (1996) – London, free translation, collaboration with artist

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, portfolio of 18 woodcuts, limited edition (Osband Press, London, 1996). In the permanent collections of the

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and

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. * Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 1997) * Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006) * These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (Toby Press, 2009) Reviews of ''These Mountains'': * *

References

External links

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