Margo Berdeshevsky
Born in New York City, Margo Berdeshevsky has traveled the world. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, attended Northwestern and New York Universities, quit for a role in her first Off Broadway play; trained as an actress in NYC by Lee Strasberg. She performed in world premieres of Harold Pinter's "The Basement" & "Tea Party," David Hare's "Slag," worked in the companies of Lincoln Center and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, toured the USA as Ophelia, and was nominated for a television Emmy award, for a country western drama in which she had her head in an oven, but was saved by a neighbor who prayed for her. Berdeshevsky's collection of poetry,
But A Passage In Wilderness, was published by The Sheep Meadow Press (December 2007.) Her honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America (selected by Marie Ponsot,) four Pushcart Prize nominations and a "special mention citation" for 2008, the Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Award, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa,) and Border's Books/ Honolulu Magazine Grand Prize for Fiction. Her work is published in
Agni,
The Southern Review,
The Kenyon Review,
Poetry Daily (twice),
New Letters,
Poetry International,
Runes,
Women's Studies Quarterly,
Nimrod,
Chelsea,
Traffic East,
Kalliope,
Southern California Anthology,
Many Mountains Moving,
Van Gogh's Ear,
Rattapallax, and more. Recent exhibitions of her "visual poems" were in Paris and in Hawaii. Her Tsunami Notebook of her documentary photographs and poems was made following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. Her poetic novel,
Vagrant, is next at the gate from Red Hen Press. And after that, her illustrated short story collection,
Beautiful Soon Enough. A lifelong traveler, she is currently living in Paris, and on the road in the United States for her newest book.
Posted on March 22, 2008 11:49 AM
