Dorianne Laux

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]

• Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
• The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men
• The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
• Pushcart Prize
• Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• The Best American Poetry 2013
• The Best American Poetry 2017
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
• Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai[1]
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.CS1 maint: others (link) 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
• Ce que nous portons, Translation of What We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0[7][8]
• Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338[9]

• "Facts about the Poet" (PDF). Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

• Official website
• Dorianne Laux's poem "Home Movies" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).