Dorianne Laux
American poet (born 1952)
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Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.
Dorianne Laux | |
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| Born | January 10, 1952 |
| Education | Mills College (BA) |
| Occupations | Poet, professor |
| Spouse | Joseph Millar |
| Children | 1 |
| Writing career | |
| Notable works | The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994) |
| Website | doriannelaux |
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][2]
Laux taught at the University of Oregon.[3][4] She is the director of North Carolina State University’s creative writing program,[5] and is a professor at the MFA in Writing program at Pacific University.[6] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.[7]
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review,[8] The Kenyon Review,[9] Ms.,[10] Orion,[11] Ploughshares,[12] The Southern Review,[13] The Seattle Review,[14] Tin House,[15] TriQuarterly,[16] Zyzzyva,[17] and Gulf Coast.[18][19] It has also been published in The Best of The American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and The Best American Poetry 1999,[20] 2006,[21] 2013,[22] and 2017.[23]
Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.[24] She has one daughter.[25]
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems[26]
- Paterson Prize for The Book of Men[27]
- Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men[28]
- Pushcart Prize[29]
- Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts[30][5]
- Guggenheim Fellowship[31]
- Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon[1]
- Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlist for Facts about the Moon[32]
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry[33]
- National Book Award for Poetry longlist for Life on Earth[34]
Works
- Awake. Introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) 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. 2008.
- Dark Charms. Red Dragonfly Press. 2010.
- The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
- The Book of Women. Red Dragonfly Press. 2012 ISBN 9781937693046.
- Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems. W. W. Norton. 2019. ISBN 978-0393652338
- Life on Earth. W.W. Norton. 2024. ISBN 978-1-324-06582-1.
As co-author
- Addonizio, Kim; Laux, Dorianne (1997). The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4.
As translator
- Cardona, Hélène (2014). Ce que nous portons [What we carry]. Translated by Laux, Dorianne. Paris: Éditions du Cygne. ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0.[35]