Author Terese Svoboda to Give Reading at UT April 12

The University of Tampa will welcome award-winning author Terese Svoboda on Tuesday, April 12, as part of the Writers at the University series. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery and is free and open to the public.

A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Svoboda is the author of six books of fiction and five books of poetry. Cleaned the Crocodile’s Teeth is a translation of Nuer song, a South Sudanese language. Her most recent novel, Bohemian Girl, was named one of the 10 best 2012 Westerns by Booklist and an Historical Book of the Year finalist in Foreword. Publisher’s Weekly praised her as a “fabulous fabulist” for her novel, Tin God, and The New York Post called her memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, “astounding.”

Svoboda is the recipient of the Bobst Prize, the Iowa Prize for poetry, the O. Henry Award for the short story and a three-time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Her writing has been selected for the Writer’s Choice column in The New York Times Book Review, a SPIN magazine book of the year and one of The Village Voice Literary Supplement’s 10 best reads. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Narrative, One Story, American Poet, Poetry, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, Yale Review, Slate, the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times.

Writers at the University is a literary reading series organized by the Department of English and Writing. Each year, the series invites renowned and emerging literary talents — poets and prose writers — to the University for readings, class visits, book signings and Q-and-A sessions. The series is funded in part by the Mandt Endowment and private donations.

For more information, contact Lynne Bartis at lbartis@ut.edu.