This Friday, Feb. 7, the University of New Hampshire English Department will welcome visiting poets Sarah Stickney and Heather Treseler to read selections of their work in the latest installment of the long-standing UNH Writers Series.
Sarah Stickney is a current teacher at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M., and has published poems in numerous journals including Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, and Guesthouse Lit. She has published the successful chapbook, “Portico”, which was selected as the winner of the Emrys Press annual competition by poet Thomas Lux.
Most recently, Stickney published her first full-length poetry book, “A Lion” in May of 2024 with MadHat Press. Stickney has also co-translated several collections of the poet Elisa Biagni’s poems, including 2014’s “The Guest in the Wood”, recipient of that year’s Best Translated Book Award for poetry
Also giving a reading this Friday is poet Heather Treseler. Treseler is the author of “Auguries & Divinations”, published in 2024, and recipient of both the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award.
Treseler’s poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review and The Irish Times. Treseler has also published several essays, appearing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, and other eight books regarding poetry. Treseler is a professor of English at Worcester State University and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center.
Former guests at the UNH Writers Series include Ada Limón, Willem Lange, Jean Valentine and Sharon Olds. The event takes place this Friday at 5 p.m. in Hamilton Smith Hall, room 210, and is open to students and the public.
