Beautiful Soon Enough

About the Author

About the Author Margo Berdeshevsky currently lives in Paris. Her poetry collection, But A Passage In Wilderness, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in December 2007. Her honors include five Pushcart Prize nominations and special mention citations in the 2008 & 2009 Pushcart Anthologies, the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America (ms. selected by Marie Ponsot), the Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind Award (ms. selected by Laura Mullen), honorable mention in the Pablo Neruda Award selected by BH Fairchild, a place in the Ann Stanford Awards (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa), & Border’s Books/ Honolulu Magazine Grand Prize for Fiction. Her works have been published in leading literary journals including Agni, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, New Letters, Poetry International, Runes, Pool, Margie, Nimrod International, Europe, Siècle 21, Frank, Indiana Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Southern California Anthology, Many Mountains Moving, and Van Gogh’s Ear. Recent exhibitions of her photographs, montages & “visual poems” have been at The Pacific Center of Photography in Hawaii, La Galerie Etienne De Causans, La Librairie Galerie Racine in Paris. Her interview & translations of French hip-hop star MC Solaar appeared in Rattapallax. Her Cuban photos illustrate the book Cuba Satisima, from Descartes & Cie, in France. Vagrant, a poetic novel, is next at the gate. She wrote her Tsunami Notebook following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors’ clinic in Aceh. Her visual poem series Les Ombres de Versailles was seen at the Parisian Gallery Benchaieb. She was born in New York City, where she had a first career as an actress, performing in the world premieres of Harold Pinter’s The Basement & The Tea Party, David Hare’s Slag, worked in the companies of Lincoln Center and Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre, toured the USA as Ophelia, and was nominated for a television Emmy award, for a country western drama in which she had her head in an oven, but was saved by a neighbor who prayed for her. ...