Therese Gleason (Carr) is author of two chapbooks: Libation (Stepping Stones Press, 2006), selected by Kwame Dawes as co-winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition, and Matrilineal (Finishing Line Press, 2021). A Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominee, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Rattle, Indiana Review, America, New Ohio Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Worcester Review, San Pedro River Review, Literary Mama, Psaltery & Lyre, Halfway Down the Stairs, SWWIM Every Day, Plainsongs, The Windhover, Limestone, Off the Margins, Mass Poetry’s Hard Work of Hope series, and Network, the newsletter of the International Women’s Writing Guild. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a Master’s degree in English from the University of Kentucky (UK), where she was awarded the Wilhelmina Barrett Award for Poetry from the Honors Program and a Gaines Fellowship in the Humanities. Therese has an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University.
Therese Gleason 