HEATHER TRESELER is the author of the poetry collection Auguries & Divinations (2024), which received the May Sarton Poetry Prize and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award. She is also the author of the chapbooks Hard Bargain (2025) and Parturition (2020); the latter received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize.
Her poems have received a Pushcart Prize, the W. B. Yeats Prize, and Narrative Magazine's 15th annual poetry prize, among other awards, and they appear in The American Scholar, Cincinnati Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Plume, and PN Review.
Her memoir essays appear in The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Magazine, and The Worcester Review among other journals. Recent pieces include:
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"My Search for Elizabeth Bishop" (cited in Best American Essays)
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"Detour"
In 2022, she edited and introduced Beyond the Frame, Celebrating a Partnership in Public Education and the Arts, a collection of essays by distinguished New England writers, highlighting artworks at the Worcester Art Museum.
Treseler's criticism appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, Harvard Review, Plume, On the Seawall, PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary poetry to include the essay "Elizabeth Bishop in New England" in Elizabeth Bishop in Context (Cambridge University Press, eds. Jonathan Ellis and Angus Cleghorn) and the lead chapter in Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive (Lever, ed. Bethany Hicok). Other recent essays include:
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Of Quirks and Quarks: John Koethe's Cemeteries and Galaxies (LARB)
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On Vidyan Ravinthiran's Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir (On the Seawall)
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On Virginia Konchan's Requiem (Plume)
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World Enough and Time: On Willard Spiegelman's Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Art of Amy Clampitt (North American Review)
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On Callie Siskel's Two Minds (Harvard Review)
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) and contemporary American literature.