Terese Svoboda is a native of Ogallala, Nebraska, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, as well as the memoir, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent. Her first novel, Cannibal, won the Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Fiction Prize. Her book of poems, Laughing Africa, won the Iowa Prize in Poetry. Her libretto for WET, a chamber opera, premiered at Los Angeles’s Disney’s RedCat performance space in 2005. Svoboda lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.