Dorianne Laux
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Dorianne Laux, a poet, was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952.
She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton) is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year. She is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), introduced by Philip Levine, What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke, (2000). She is co-author of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and has been twice included in Best American Poetry. She has been awarded with a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Laux is a Professor in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University. She lives in Eugene with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and her daughter, Tristem.
