HEATHER TRESELER is the author of the poetry collection Auguries & Divinations (2024), which received the May Sarton NH 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 appear in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Plume, PN Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Narrative, The Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, and The Iowa Review, among other journals.
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. Her memoir essays appear in The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Magazine, and The Worcester Review among other journals; "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) and contemporary American literature.