Taije Silverman

Taije Silverman is the author of Houses Are Fields, a book of poems, and her newer poetry has been in The Best American Poetry 2016, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Agni, and other journals. Poems are forthcoming in the Georgia Review, the_Gettysburg Review, the Massachusetts Review, and Barrow Street. She is the recipient of a 2017 Pushcart Prize, the 2016 Anne Halley Prize for best poem in the Massachusetts Review, a 2011 Fulbright Award, the 2010-11 W.K. Rose Fellowship from Vassar College, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her translations of Giovanni Pascoli have appeared in The Nation, the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Agni, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. Houses Are Fields appeared in Italian translation in 2013 (Le Case Sono Campi_, trans. Giorgia Pordenoni, Oedipus Edizioni). She has taught at the University of Bologna in Italy, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, Ursinus College, and Emory University, where she was the Creative Writing Fellow.