Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan, 2024), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the 2024 Shelia Margaret Motton Book Award, and Parturition (Southword, 2020), which received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Cincinnati Review, PN Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Narrative, The Missouri Review, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Treseler's essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary poetry. Her essay "My Search for Elizabeth Bishop" was cited in Best American Essays. In 2022, she edited Beyond the Frame, Celebrating a Partnership in Public Education and the Arts, a collection of essays by distinguished New England writers, highlighting signature artworks at the Worcester Art Museum. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as residencies at the Boston Athenaeum, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the T. S. Eliot House. Recipient of the George I. Alden award for Excellence in Teaching, she is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center and professor of English at Worcester State University. She teaches courses in creative writing (poetry and non-fiction), contemporary American literature, and literature and medicine.