Writers Series: Eileen Cleary and Heather Treseler

The Writers Series welcomes authors Eileen Cleary and Heather Treseler for it's November program. The Salem State Writers  Series invites noted authors of short stories, biography, poetry, poetry, memoir and essays to share their work at free readings throughout the academic year. 

Eileen Cleary (she/her/hers) is the author of Child ward of the Commonwealth (2019), which won honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award, 2 am with Keats (Nixes Mate, 2021) and Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate, 2024.) She co-edited the anthology  Voices Amidst the Virus, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival and founded and is EIC of Lily Poetry Review Books and the  "Lily Poetry Review." She has edited over fifty published poetry collections. A multi-Pushcart nominee, her work is widely published in journals and anthologies.

Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations, which received the 2023 May Sarton Prize, and Parturition, which won the Munster Literature Centre’s chapbook prize in Ireland and the Jean Pedrick Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Irish Times, JAMA, Kenyon Review, Lily Poetry Review, and PN Review. Her essays appear in Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in eight books about American poetry. Recipient of the W. B. Yeats Prize, Frontier Poetry’s prize, Narrative magazine’s annual poetry prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She lives near Boston.