Theresa Rogers is a Vancouver-based poet and a language and literacy professor at the University of British Columbia. She is originally from the U.S. and still spends part of her year in Wellfleet, Massachusetts – a poetic space of inspiration.  She recently won second prize for emerging poets in the Vancouver Poet Laureate City Poems Contest, and her work has appeared in the English Bay Review, Uppagus, The Cape Cod Poetry Review, Cape Cod Times poetry page, and The San Diego Reader. She received an MFA in poetry from Antioch, Los Angeles in 2018 and recently attended the Marge Piercy Intensive Workshop. She is grateful for workshops with many other wonderful poets over the years, including Alan Dugan, Robert Pinksy, Peter Campion, Jim Daniels, Dan Bellm, Victoria Chang and Fiona Lam.

 

Theresa grew up with her mother and sisters in several small towns in Westchester County, New York, where she was able to play freely in backyards, roam the woods, and skate across frozen lakes. She began writing poetry in high school with the encouragement of a wild and engaging young teacher with a long braid who commuted from the West Village in New York City. This passion once ignited never subsided and, like many women, she returned to poetry whenever she could in and around her family and work life.

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Theresa currently serves on the board of poetry in canada.