Teresa Dzieglewicz

Teresa Dzieglewicz is an educator, Pushcart Prize-winning poet, and lover of rivers. Her first book, Something Small of How To See a River, won Tupelo Press's 2021 Dorset Prize and is forthcoming in 2023. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize. She is the winner of the 2018 Auburn Witness Prize and the 2020 Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, New Harmony Writer's Workshop, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the NY Mills Arts Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Pushcart Prize XLII, Best New PoetsBeloit Poetry JournalGeorgia ReviewPrairie SchoonerNinth Letter, and elsewhere.

By The Numbers

On the coldest nights, you could hear these other lives. Broken housing contracts and paystubs-that-never-were fluttering their wings in the wind.