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’Trailer
Girl’ author to give reading
Terese
Svoboda, author of eight books of poetry, translation and fiction
who is based in New York City, will spend a month as writer-in-residence
in the English department.
Svoboda
will work with students in WSU’s creative writing program,
starting Feb. 11. While at WSU, she’ll give a free, public
reading of her book, "Trailer Girl and Other Stories,"
at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in 209 Hubbard Hall.
"Trailer
Girl," which is Svoboda’s seventh book, has been called
"piercing, unprettified prose." Written in nontraditional
prose, the book is a collection of 15 short stories and one novella
that was called "disturbing, edgy and provocative" by
Book magazine. The novella consists of 31 short chapters, some no
more than one or two paragraphs long, that tell the story of a nameless
woman living in a trailer park who meets a wild girl living in a
nearby gully.
Svoboda’s
eighth book, "Treason," will be published this year. She’s
won numerous awards and fellowships and is an 11-time nominee for
the Pushcart Prize, which recognizes the best work published in
literary magazines over the course of a year.
Born
and raised in Nebraska, she earned degrees from the University of
British Columbia and Columbia University. After traveling around
the world working in visual anthropology, she worked as a producer
on a five-part film series at Columbia’s Translation Center
and then a 13-part PBS series on American poetry.
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