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Brenda Webster is an American writer, critic and translator. She is best known for her translation of Italian poetry in The Penguin Book of Women Poets.

History
Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, and Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley. Webster is the current president of PEN West.

Writings
Webster has written two critical studies, Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford University Press) and Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan), which have appeared in several anthologies. She has also translated poetry from the Italian for The Other Voice (Norton) and The Penguin Book of Women Poets.

Brenda Webster is the author of two novels, Sins of the Mothers (Baskerville, 1993) and Paradise Farm (SUNY, 1999). Her memoir, The Last Good Freudian was published by Holmes and Meier in 2000. The Modern Language Association recently announced publication of Webster's translation of Edith Bruck's Holocaust novel Lettera alla Madre.

Vienna Triangle, the latest novel by Webster, will be published in Fall of 2009, and is said to explore Freud's role in the death of a brilliant disciple.

Awards
Brenda Webster has been nominated for two 26th Annual 2007 Northern California Book Awards.


 * Fiction: The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster.
 * Translation: Letter to My Mother by Edith Bruck, translated by Brenda Webster.