Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i poet and translator. She teaches poetry,

Hebrew literature Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews. Hebrew literature was pro ...

and poetry translation at

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

Biography

Linda Stern (later Zisquit) was born in

Buffalo, NY Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from South ...

. She studied at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

and, later, at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

and

SUNY Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

. In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. 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

Bar Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

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 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 Yona Wallach ( he, יונה וולך; June 10, 1944 – September 26, 1985) was an Israeli poet. Her surname also appears as Volach. She is considered a revolutionary Israeli Feminism, feminist and Postmodernism, post-modernist. Wallach was a pr ...

(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

Maty Grunberg Maty Grunberg (Hebrew מתי גרינברג) born 1943, is an Israeli sculptor and known also for his Artist Books. Biography Maty Grunberg was born in Skopje, Macedonia, the former Yugoslavia. In the year 1948 M.G. immigrated to Israel with hi ...

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

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and

La Salle University Art Museum The La Salle University Art Museum is located in the basement of Olney Hall at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum features six galleries. Collections include European and American art from the Renaissance to the present. ...

. * 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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