Dorianne Laux

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

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.  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, W. W. Norton February 2011
• The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012

Anthologies

• Best of The American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• thrice in Best American Poetry.

As editor

• Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4. 

References

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

External links

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