Steven Teref

Steven Teref received his M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia College Chicago and his B.A. in English Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a minor in Slavic Studies.  He studied Serbian with the notable Serbian linguist Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić at UIC.  His co-translations of Novica Tadić's poetry have appeared in New American Writing, Action Yes, Black Clock and Court Green, and are forthcoming in Dirty Goat. In addition, he has written essays on Yugoslav poets in Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. He currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago. Steven and Maja Teref were recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize for their translations of Novica Tadić.


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