Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler is the author of Parturition (Southword, 2020), which received the Munster Literature Centre’s chapbook award in Ireland and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems appear in The Irish Times, Harvard Review, The American Scholar, The Cincinnati Review, PN Review, and The Iowa Review, and her essays about poetry appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, and eight books about contemporary and modernist poetry. In 2019 she received the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from The Missouri Review for “The Lucie Odes,” and in 2021, Spencer Reece chose her poem “Wildlife” for the Yeats Poetry Prize. Treseler is professor of English at Worcester State University and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.