Dorothy Barresi

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Dorothy Barresi is an Italian-American poet. She teaches in the English Department at California State University at Northridge, where she is Chair of the Creative Writing Program. She was also the Distinguished Poet Judge for the Annual Bordighera Poetry Prize and the Los Angles Times Book Award in Poetry. She and her husband, Phil Matero, live in Los Angeles with their two children.

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[edit] Education

[edit] Awards

  • 18th annual American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation
  • Barnard College New Women Poets Prize
  • Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), North Carolina Arts Council.
  • Pushcart Prize (twice)
  • Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize
  • Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize.
  • Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competitition.

[edit] Books

  • Rouge Pulp (Pittsburg, 2002
  • Post-Rapture Diner (The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)
  • All of the Above (Beacon Press, 1991)

[edit] Other Publications

Poetry, Parnassus, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, Souther Review, The Antioch Review, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review.