Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board
Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize and is a finalist for the 2024 New England Book Award in poetry and Parturition, which won the Munster Literature Centre’s chapbook prize in Ireland and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2020.
Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Irish Times, Narrative, Lily Poetry Review, and Kenyon Review, and have received the W. B. Yeats Prize, Frontier Poetry’s prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review. Her essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, and PN Review, and in eight books about contemporary and modernist poetry. Her work has been supported by the Boston Athenaeum, the T. S. Eliot House, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recipient of the George I. Alden Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She lives outside of Boston.