Teresa Cader’s fourth poetry collection, AT RISK, was selected by Mark Doty for the 2023 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize and published by Ashland Poetry Press in October 2024. Her other books include: History of Hurricanes (Northwestern, 2009), selected as a “Must Read” book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club; The Paper Wasp (Northwestern, 1998); and Guests (1990), winner of The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Prize Poetry Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected by Mary Oliver. A long sequence from The Paper Wasp won the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

She has been awarded two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and multiple honors and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Bunting Institute-Radcliffe, MacDowell, and Bread Loaf. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Plume, Poetry, Harvard Review, On the Seawall, AGNI, Ploughshares, Harvard Magazine, and many other venues. Her work has been translated into Icelandic and Polish.

She has taught literature and creative writing at MIT, the UMass-Boston MFA Program, Emerson College Graduate School, and for ten years on the poetry faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. She holds degrees in English from Wilson College and the University of Wisconsin and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her husband.