Terese Svoboda has published four books of poems, most recently Treason (Zoo Press, 2003), as well as Mere Mortals (1995) and All Aberration (1985), both from the University of Georgia, and Laughing Africa (University of Iowa,1990), winner of the Iowa Prize. New poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Guernica, Conduit, and Tin House; and her poems and stories have appeared in past issues of Blackbird. Tin God, her fourth novel, was published by the University of Nebraska in 2006. She will be teaching poetry for SLS in Nairobi this Christmas.