Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake (1990) What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, Smoke (2000) and Superman: The Chapbook (2008).  In the fall of 2009 Red Dragonfly Press will release a second chapbook, Dark Charms.  Co-author of The Poet's Companion (W. W. Norton) she’s the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The NEA and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  Widely anthologized, her work has appeared in the Best of APR, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Best of the Net. She has been teaching poetry in private and public venues since 1990 and since 2004 at Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA Program.  In the summers she teaches at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and Truro Center for the Arts in Wellfleet, Mass. Her poems have been translated into French, Italian, Korean, Romanian, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese.  Her selected works, In a Room with a Rag in my Hand, have been translated into Arabic by Camel/Kalima Press, 2009.  Recent poems appear in Cimarron Review, Cerise Press, Margie, The Seattle Review, Tin House and The Valparaiso Review.  Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, will be published in 2011 by W.W. Norton.  She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, moved to Raleigh in 2008 where she teaches poetry at North Carolina State University.