Terese Svoboda

Bio: Terese Svoboda’s most recent book, Great American Desert, contains stories about climate from prehistoric times to the future. Her second novel, A Drink Called Paradise, traced the effects of a atomic poisoning in the Pacific. She also wrote the libretto for WET, an opera about water shortage that premiered at LA’s RedCat Theater, and produced a nationally screened video, EPA POISONS EPA about a lawyer who becomes severely handicapped by pollution in EPA’s national headquarters. In a starred review of Great American Desert, Kirkus writes: “[Svoboda’s] enigmatic sentences, elliptical narratives, and percussive plots delve into the possibilities of form, genre, and plausible futures, but always with an eye on the vast subterranean psychologies of her all-too-real creations.”