Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux
Born (1952-01-10) January 10, 1952
Augusta, Maine
Occupation Poet, professor
Alma mater Mills College
Notable works The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994)
Spouse Joseph Millar
Children 1
Website
doriannelaux.com

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

Biography

Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988.[1]

Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.[2] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares,[3] Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.[4] She has also appeared in online journals such as Web Del Sol.[5]

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.[2] She has one daughter.[5]

Awards

Works

  • Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2. re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
  • What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994. ISBN 978-1-880238-07-3.
  • Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000. ISBN 978-1-880238-86-8.
  • Facts about the Moon. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9.
  • Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008[1]
  • Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
  • The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
  • The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046

Anthologies

Performance

As editor

  • Kim Addonizio; Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dorianne Laux". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Core Faculty". Pacific University. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Author Detail. Ploughshares. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Dorianne Laux". Web Del Sol. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Dorianne Laux". Writers' Corner. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  • "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2012.


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