Teresa Dzieglewicz

Teresa Dzieglewicz is a poet and educator. Her first book of poetry, Something Small of How to See a River (Tupelo Press, 2025), was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize. Her first children’s book, Belonging, cowritten with Kimimila Locke, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. 

Dzieglewicz has also won a Pushcart Prize, the Gingko Prize, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, and the Palette Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Community of Writers, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Brooklyn Poets. 

Dzieglewicz is a fellow with Black Earth Institute, a poet in residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and part of the founding team of Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe [Defenders of the Water School]. With fellow writer and educator Natasha Mijares, she organizes “Watershed: Ways of Seeing the Chicago River.”

Dzieglewicz lives in Chicago, on Potawatomi land.