About Me
Eva Salzman trained as a dancer/choreographer in her first life, before becoming a freelance writer. Her books include: "Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems" Her (Bloodaxe), "One Two II" (Wrecking Ball Press), ilustrated by Van Howell and "Bargain with the Watchman" (Oxford University Press).Her mother is an environmental activist and her father is a composer. Her grandmother, a child vaudeville actress and teacher, wrote for and performed in children’s theatre and her all-rounder grandfather was a psychologist, teacher, humanist and fixer of houses.This background, and a range of odd jobs – Exercise Director of a Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish diet centre, out-of-print book searcher, antique wheeler-and-dealer, researcher for bad glossy magazines and cleaner of rich ladies’ houses – are subjects for dinner conversation small-talk, and inform her work.At Stuyvesant H.S., Bennington College and Columbia University her teachers included: Frank McCourt, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott Carolyn Kizer, Stanley Kunitz, Jorie Graham, C.K. Williams, Edmund White and Elizabeth Hardwick.Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Ruskin College, Oxford and Warwick University for a number of years, more recently she enjoyed a Laureateship at Villa Mont Noir in France. Awards include a Cholmondeley from the Society of Authors and an Arts Council of England grant.Her writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Romanian, and widely published - in the US and UK particularly – and broadcast on the BBC, her libretti and lyrics commissioned by festivals and composers – including her father – all over the UK and Europe.Current projects include editing "Women’s Work" (Seren) and "True to Life: An Anthology from Ruskin College, Oxford", and trying not to write a novel "Broken Island".
