Heather Treseler Author

Heather Treseler is the 2023 winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her book Parturition (Southword, 2020),  received the 2019 chapbook award from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. Her memoir essay “My Search for Elizabeth Bishop” was included in the list of “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2022, edited by Alexander Chee. Also 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 Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center, the Boston Athenaeum, and the T. S. Eliot House. Recipient of the George I. Alden award for Excellence in Teaching, she is professor of English at Worcester State University.