Mothers-in-Law
March 3rd, 2026 | by Terese Svoboda
Consider how much I could learn: She knew how to handle General Patton as well as her second husband
About Terese Svoboda
Terese Svoboda
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 24 books. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has been awarded Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Hermitage, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rowland, VCCA, Bogliasco, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall.