Dorothy Barresi

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Dorothy Barresi (b. 1957) is an American poet.

Born November 13 in Buffalo, New York and raised in Akron, Ohio, Barresi won the Barnard Women New Poets Prize for her first book, All of the Above. She teaches in the English Department at California State University at Northridge, where she is Chair of the Creative Writing Program.

She and her husband, Phil Matero, live in Los Angeles with their two children, Andrew and Dante.

Contents 1 Books 2 Education 3 Awards 4 Poetry in Periodicals 5 References

[edit] Books

• Rouge Pulp, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
• Mother, My Porous China, poetry (Laguna Beach: The Inevitable Press, 1998)
• Post-Rapture Diner, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)
• All of the Above, poetry (Boston: Beacon Press, 1991)
• The Judas Clock, poetry (Blythewood: Devil's Millhopper Press, 1986)

[edit] Education

• MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1985
• MA, University of Pittsburgh 1981
• BA, University of Akron 1979

[edit] Awards

• 18th annual American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation
• Barnard 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 Emily Clark Balch Prize.
• Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competition.

[edit] Poetry in Periodicals

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

[edit] References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.

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