Heather Treseler

Heather Treseler is author of Auguries & Divinations, winner of the 2025 Massachusetts Book Award, the May Sarton Prize, and the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award, and two chapbooks, Hard Bargain and Parturition. Her poems appear in Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Irish Times, Kenyon Review, and Pushcart Prize Anthology: L. Her essays appear in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, PN Review, and in eight books about poetry. She is professor of English at Worcester State University and scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. Visit HeatherTreseler.com

  • Molly Twomey’s “Chic To Be Sad” reviewed by Heather Treseler

    For me, as a child of the ‘80s and teen of the ‘90s, it often felt as though occupying a female body was the equivalent of wearing a grenade.
    Plume Issue #170 October 2025
  • Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” reviewed by Heather Treseler

    “I have already faced The Worst… [and] can enjoy life simply for what it is: a continuous job,” Sylvia Plath wrote
    Plume Issue #164 April 2025
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Midlife, midsummer, and an infatuation