Terese Svoboda is the author of the short story collection Great American Desert (Mad Creek Books, 2019) and the biography Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet (Schaffner Books, 2018). Svoboda's poetry collections include When the Next Big War Blows Down the Valley: Selected & New (Anhinga Press, 2015) and Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear, 2016).