Margo Berdeshevsky

Margo Berdeshevsky has published a poetry collection, But a Passage in Wilderness (Sheep Meadow Press, 2007), and two books are forthcoming: a novel, Vagrant (Red Hen Press), and a volume of illustrated short tales, Beautiful Soon Enough (Fiction Collective 2). The latter, which will include “Pas de Deux, à Trois,” “A Troika for Lovers,”and “A Friday Desdemona,” won the FC2 Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize. Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Chelsea Award, and Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind Award. Her writing has appeared in AGNI, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, Poetry International, Poetry Daily, Nimrod, Siècle 21, Rattapallax, and elsewhere. A Tsunami Notebook of her documentary photographs and poems—made after work at a survivors’ clinic in Aceh, Sumatra, in spring 2005—can be seen online. Berdeshevsky currently lives in Paris. (updated 4/2009)

AGNI has published the following work by Margo Berdeshevsky:

•A Friday Desdemona
•Pas de Deux, à Trois
•Troika for Lovers