Linda Stern Zisquit

Linda Stern Zisquit is an American-born Israeli poet and translator. She teaches poetry, Hebrew literature and poetry translation at Bar-Ilan University.

Biography

Linda Stern was born in Buffalo, NY. She studied at Tufts University and, later, at Harvard University and SUNY Buffalo. In 1978, she moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. 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 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 and Havoc: New & Selected Poems as well as several volumes of English translations of Hebrew poetry, including among them the poems of Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach for which she won an NEA Translation Grant and These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry.

Published works

Poetry collections

Ritual Bath
Unopened Letters
The Face in the Window
Havoc: New and Selected Poems
Return from Elsewhere

Translation

Open-Eyed Land: Desert Poems of Yehuda Amichai
The Book of Ruth – London, free translation, collaboration with artist Maty Grunberg, portfolio of 18 woodcuts, limited edition. In the permanent collections of the British Museum and La Salle University Art Museum.
Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach
Let the Words: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach
These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam