Therese Gleason

​​Therese Gleason is the author of two chapbooks: Libation (co-winner, South Carolina Poetry Initiative competition, 2006) and Matrilineal (Finishing Line Press, 2021).  A Pushcart and Best-of-the-Net nominee, her poems appear or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Indiana Review, Rattle, New Ohio Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, America, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Literary Mama, SWWIM, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Louisville, KY, Therese lives in Worcester, MA, with her spouse and three children. A literacy teacher and dyslexia therapist, she reads for The Worcester Review and holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University.