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Terese Svoboda's most recent work is the book of poetry Weapons Grade. Svoboda's short story collection Trailer Girl and Other Stories is forthcoming in 2009, and her work of fiction Pirate Talk or Mermelade will be published in 2010. Her book Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan won the 2007 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and was selected by the Japan Times for the Best of Asia 2008 list. Her work has been chosen for the Writer's Choice column in the New York Times Book Review, and she has received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an O. Henry Award. Cannibal, her first novel, won the Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Her second novel, A Drink Called Paradise, was one of Voice Literary Supplement's ten best reads of the summer.
She has taught at Davidson, Bennington, William and Mary, Williams, San Francisco State, The New School, University of Miami, University of Hawaii, and Sarah Lawrence College.
Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, Faculty, the Writing Program.
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