Teresa Cader

Teresa Cader earned a BA in English from Wilson College in Pennsylvania, an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin, and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. 

Cader is the author of four poetry collections: At Risk (Ashland Poetry Press, 2024), selected by Mark Doty for the 2023 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize; History of Hurricanes (Northwestern University Press, 2009); The Paper Wasp (Northwestern University Press, 1999); and Guests (Ohio State University Press, 1991), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. Her poems have been translated into Polish and Icelandic. 

Cader has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute–Radcliffe, MacDowell, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Cader taught on the poetry faculty of the MFA in creative writing program at Lesley University for eleven years as well as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston as a visiting writer in the MFA program. She served as associate director of the Innovations in Government Program (now defunct) at the John F. Kennedy of Government after extensive work in the public sector. She lives near Boston.