Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Therese Gleason holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific University and has lived in Madrid, Washington, and Columbia, South Carolina. Her chapbook Libation (Stepping Stones Press, 2006) was selected by Kwame Dawes as co-winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition. Matrilineal (Finishing Line Press, 2021) received an honorable mention for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, and Hemicrania (Chestnut Review, 2024) won that prize outright in 2025. A literacy teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts, she reads for The Worcester Review. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Indiana Review, and Rattle.
