Therese Gleason

Therese Gleason is author of three poetry chapbooks: Hemicrania (Chestnut Review Chapbooks, 2024), winner of the 2025 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club; Matrilineal (Finishing Line, 2021), honorable mention, 2022 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize; and Libation, co-winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition (University of South Carolina, 2006). Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in 32 Poems, America, Chestnut Review, Cincinnati Review miCRo Series, Indiana Review, Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche, Literary Mama, New Ohio Review, On the Seawall, Pithead Chapel, Rattle Poets Respond, and others. Her manuscript-in-progress, Driveway, was selected as a finalist for…

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