Teresa Iverson is a poet, translator, and editor. She holds a PhD in German Literature and Literary Translation from Boston University; her dissertation, on the poetry of Gottfried Benn, is titled: Gottfried Benn’s Intimate Discourse: The “Du” in Monologic Art.
With Rosanna Warren, she taught poetry at MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts’ only prison for women, and coedited In Time, a collection of student inmates’ writing.
Her own poems and translations have been published in many journals, including PN Review, AGNI, Fulcrum, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Notre Dame Review, New Criterion, Delos, Partisan Review, Poetry Porch, Sonnet Scroll, and anthologized in World Literature: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (Katherine Walsh and John S. Major, editors). Her translated Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs is under review for publication.