The Face in the Window

LINDA STERN ZISQUIT was born in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Tufts University, Harvard University, and SUNY Buffalo. She is an American emigrant to Israel, described by Tikkun as a poet who "writes her American self in into the culture while coaxing its Hebrew voices into English." Zisquit is the author of Unopened Letters (1996) and Ritual Bath (1992), and the translator of several works, including Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997), for which she won an NEA translation grant and a PEN translation award. Zisquit lives in Jerusalem, where she teaches at Bar Ilan University and runs an art gallery.