Linda Zisquit

Linda Stern Zisquit teaches poetry and poetry translation. Educated at Tufts University, Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo, she has published five full-length collections of poetry, Return from Elsewhere (co-winner, Outriders Poetry Project, 2014), Havoc: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2013), The Face in the Window (Sheep Meadow Press, 2004), Unopened Letters (Sheep Meadow, 1996) and Ritual Bath (Broken Moon, 1993). In addition her translations from Hebrew include These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam (Toby Press, 2010), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award (Poetry), Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow, 2006) and Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (Sheep Meadow, 1997) for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and was short-listed for a PEN Translation Award. She has lived in Jerusalem since 1978 with her husband and five children. She runs ARTSPACE, a Jerusalem art gallery representing contemporary Israeli artists.