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Occupation
  
Poet, professor

Spouse
  
Joseph Millar

Role
  
Poet


Name
  
Dorianne Laux

Alma mater
  
Mills College

Education
  
Mills College (1988)

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Born
  
January 10, 1952 (age 72) Augusta, Maine (
1952-01-10
)

Notable works
  
The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Nominations
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry

Books
  
Facts About the Moon, What we carry, Awake, Smoke, The Book of Men

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Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

Contents

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Biography

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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.

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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. 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, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva. She has also appeared in online journals such as Web Del Sol.

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. She has one daughter.

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
  • The Best American Poetry 1999
  • The Best American Poetry 2006
  • The Best American Poetry 2013
  • The Best American Poetry 2017
  • List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
  • Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai
  • 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
  • Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
  • The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5. 
  • The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046

    • Anthologies

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

    • Performance

  • The Poetry Brothel The Poetry Society of New York

    • 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

    Dorianne Laux Wikipedia
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