Dorianne Laux
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| Born | 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 |
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Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 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
- 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
- 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
Works
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- Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008[1]
- Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
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- The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
Anthologies
- Best of The American Poetry Review
- The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- thrice in Best American Poetry.
As editor
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References
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External links
- Official website
- Dorianne Laux's poem "Home Movies" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).
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