Bio
Marcela Sulak was born and raised on a rice farm in South Texas. She attended The University of Texas at Austin, where she received a BA in Psychology and Honors English. She received an MFA and an MA at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, winning the William Mitchell Award for Best Graduate Creative Thesis. She holds an MA in Religious Studies from VillaNova University; her thesis is a collection of interviews called " A Paradigm for Survival: An Historical Analysis of the Czech Catholic Church and Socialist Society 1945-1989.” Her Ph.D. in English is from The University of Texas at Austin with concentrations in Poetry and Poetics, American Literature, and a certificate in European Studies. Her Ph.D. dissertation is called "Ligatures of Time and Space: 1920s New York as a construction site for "American" identity in the long lyric poem." She is a four-time recipient of the Academy of American Poetry Prize, and has won five FLAS prizes for the study of Czech and Yiddish.
She is the author of two collections of poetry Immigrant (Black Lawrence Press, 2010) and the chapbook Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press). Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Guernica, The Black Warrior Review, The Cimarron Review, The Notre Dame Review, Fence, The Indiana Review, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast and No Tell Motel, among others.
Her essay "Getting a Get" was runner-up in the 2012 Iowa Review Nonfiction competition judged by Meghan Daum, and will appear in December 2012.
Sulak translates from Spanish, French, Czech, German, Yiddish and Hebrew. Three collections have been published or are forthcoming; from the Czech: May [Maj] by Karel Hynek Macha (Twisted Spoon Press, 2005. Second edition 2010), and Bouquet [Kytice] by Karel Jaromir Erben (Twisted Spoon Press, 2011). From the French: Bela-Wenda. Poems of Congo-Zaire by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha forthcoming in 2011 from Host Publications.
Marcela Sulak has worked as a free-lance writer and teacher in Caracas, Venezuela, Rottenburg- am-Neckar, Germany, and Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. She has studied in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlin and Prague, Czech Republic, and Tubingen, Germany. Her research has brought to her Paris, London, Amsterdam, Santiago and Lima. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she was an Assistant Professor of Literature at American University in Washington, DC.
Currenty she is a senior lecturer of English at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, where she directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing and teaches American Literature, Poetry, Creative Writing and Translation.
She is the author of two collections of poetry Immigrant (Black Lawrence Press, 2010) and the chapbook Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press). Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Guernica, The Black Warrior Review, The Cimarron Review, The Notre Dame Review, Fence, The Indiana Review, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast and No Tell Motel, among others.
Her essay "Getting a Get" was runner-up in the 2012 Iowa Review Nonfiction competition judged by Meghan Daum, and will appear in December 2012.
Sulak translates from Spanish, French, Czech, German, Yiddish and Hebrew. Three collections have been published or are forthcoming; from the Czech: May [Maj] by Karel Hynek Macha (Twisted Spoon Press, 2005. Second edition 2010), and Bouquet [Kytice] by Karel Jaromir Erben (Twisted Spoon Press, 2011). From the French: Bela-Wenda. Poems of Congo-Zaire by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha forthcoming in 2011 from Host Publications.
Marcela Sulak has worked as a free-lance writer and teacher in Caracas, Venezuela, Rottenburg- am-Neckar, Germany, and Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. She has studied in Vilnius, Lithuania; Zlin and Prague, Czech Republic, and Tubingen, Germany. Her research has brought to her Paris, London, Amsterdam, Santiago and Lima. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she was an Assistant Professor of Literature at American University in Washington, DC.
Currenty she is a senior lecturer of English at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, where she directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing and teaches American Literature, Poetry, Creative Writing and Translation.
