Teresa Dzieglewicz

Teresa Dzieglewicz is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet, educator, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a Black Earth Institute fellow, a Chicago Poetry Center Poet-in-Residence, and part of the Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School) founding team. With Natasha Mijares, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River”. Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her children’s book, Belonging, co-written with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize. She lives in Chicago, with her family, on Potawatomi land.