Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 in

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) is an American

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Biography

Laux worked as a

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cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

in English from

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was ...

in 1988. Laux taught at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

. She is a professor at

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at

Pacific University Pacific University is a private university in Forest Grove, Oregon. Founded in 1849 as the Tualatin Academy, the original Forest Grove campus is west of Portland. The university maintains three other campuses in Eugene, Hillsboro, and Wood ...

. She is also a contributing editor at

The Alaska Quarterly Review ''The Alaska Quarterly Review'' is a biannual literary journal founded in 1980 by Ronald Spatz and James Liszka at the University of Alaska Anchorage and continued unaffiliated in 2020.July 1, 2020 University of Alaska Anchorage ended its financi ...

. Her work appeared in ''

American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizab ...

'', ''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

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with her husband, poet

Joseph Millar Joseph Millar is an American poet. He was raised in western Pennsylvania and after an adult life spent mostly in the SF Bay Area and the Northwest, he divides his time between Raleigh, NC and Richmond, CA. Life Millar received a BA degree fro ...

. She has one daughter.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems *

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for ''The Book of Men'' * The Roanoke-Chowan Award for ''The Book of Men'' *

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

* Two fellowships from the

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

The Best American Poetry 1999 ''The Best American Poetry 1999'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Bly. Poets and poems included See also * 1999 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with informatio ...

The Best American Poetry 2006 ''The Best American Poetry 2006'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series'', was edited by David Lehman (general editor), and poet Billy Collins, guest editor. The volume received some negative reviews. A review in the '' RATTLE'' by G. Tod ...

The Best American Poetry 2013 ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

The Best American Poetry 2017 ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001. US and Canadian Fellows * Geneive Abdo, Independent Scholar, Washington, D. C.; Senior Research Associate, Middle East Institute, Columbia University: Faith, power, and the new Iran. * Jeremy A ...

Oregon Book Award The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. ...

for ''Facts about the Moon'', selected by Ai * 2006

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

shortlisted for ''Facts about the Moon'' *

National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Eastern Washington University Press Eastern Washington University Press (EWU Press) was a publishing house formed in the 1970s that was a part of Eastern Washington University. The press specialized in scholarly works about Asia and the environment; it also released works of fiction ...

* * * * ''Superman: The Chapbook'' Red Dragonfly Press January 2008 * ''Dark Charms'' Red Dragonfly Press 2010 * * ''The Book of Women'', Red Dragonfly Press 2012 * ''Ce que nous portons'', Translation of ''What We Carry'' by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 *''Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems'', W. W. Norton 2019

Anthologies

* ''Best of

The American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizabe ...

'' * '' The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry'' * four citations in

Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

Performance

* ''The Poetry Brothel'' The Poetry Society of New York''

As editor

References

External links

*
Guide to the Dorianne Louise Laux Papers 1968-2019
* Dorianne Laux's poe
"Home Movies" in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (23.1)
Gave a review to poet Jessica Cuello's book "Liar." {{DEFAULTSORT:Laux, Dorianne 1952 births Living people Pacific University faculty People from Augusta, Maine Writers from Eugene, Oregon Writers from Raleigh, North Carolina University of Oregon faculty North Carolina State University faculty American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers Mills College alumni Poets from Maine Poets from Oregon 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers