Dorothea Lasky is an
American poet
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She has published four full-length collections of poetry through
Wave Books
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and one through
Liveright/
W.W. Norton
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, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals.
She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at
Columbia University School of the Arts.
Background and education
She was born in
St. Louis, Missouri
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in 1978. She graduated from
Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Ladue Horton Watkins High School is a public high school in Ladue, Missouri, United States, that is administered by the Ladue School District. Its namesake, Horton Watkins, was vice president of the International Shoe Company and died in 1949. The ...
in 1996. She earned a
BA in
classics and
psychology
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from
Washington University in St. Louis
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She earned her
MFA in
Poetry
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from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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's
MFA Program for Poets & Writers
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, and her
Ed.M. in Arts & Education from
Harvard University
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, and her
Ed.D.
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in Creativity and Education from the
University of Pennsylvania
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Her work has appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''Boston Review'', and the ''New Yorker.''
Bibliography
;Full-length collections
*''Animal''. Wave Books, 2019.
*''Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac''. With
Alex Dimitrov. Flatiron Books, 2019.
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Milk' Wave Books, 2018.
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* Ed. with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan.
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''Rome'' Liveright, 2012,
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;Chapbooks & pamphlets
*''Snakes'' (Tungsten Press, 2018)
*''Poetry is Not a Project'' (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
*''Tourmaline'' (Transmission Press, 2008)
*''The Hatmaker's Wife'' (2006)
*''Art'' (H NGM N Press, 2005)
*''Alphabets & Portraits'' (Anchorite Press, 2004)
References
External links
Dorothea Lasky's personal pageDorothea Lasky's Author Page at Wave BooksDorothea Lasky's Bird in Snow, home of the Tiny Tour*
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Katalanché PressDorothea Lasky on PennSoundLasky's page at Columbia University School of the Arts
1978 births
Living people
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education alumni
American women poets
Columbia University faculty
Ladue Horton Watkins High School alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
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