About the Poet
Teresa Dzieglewicz is an educator and Pushcart Prize-winning poet. She currently works as a Poet-in-Residence with the Chicago Poetry Center and an organizer with the Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School) at Standing Rock Reservation. Her first book, Something Small of How To See a River, was selected by Tyehimba Jess for Tupelo Press's 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 Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.