Teresa is honored to share that she has received a generous grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation to write her second book.
This will support Teresa in research, travel, and writing time as she works on her new manuscript.
Teresa has been selected as a Poet-in-Residence with the Chicago Poetry Center.
In this role, Teresa has the opportunity to work with young people in two different Chicago Public Schools middle schools and learn from their amazing voices, words, and ideas!
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Teresa’s debut book, Something Small of How to See a River, has been selected for the 2021 Dorset Prize and will be published by Tupelo Press.
“The poet is smuggling a fresh groundwater swell of realfolk stories to testify alongside and against the sludge of headline misinformation, police reports, municipal records, and statistics. Working in the true sense of a liberatory project, here is honest, bracing news for the weary but unwavered.”—Tyehimba Jess (Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Olio)
Teresa has been short-listed for the Manchester Prize, the UK’s biggest award for unpublished writing.
We were drawn to poems that were grappling with difficult terrain, imagistically lush, and formally skillful. —Head Judge Malika Booker
Palette Poetry Prize Winner: There are no police in this poem
"Formally propulsive, its virgules slicing up the silence that a line break would create, the poem rushes forward even while the repeating, insisting phrase “there are no police…” creates a back eddy of intensity in our minds." — Guest Judge Forrest Gander (Pulitzer Prize Winner)