Dorianne Laux


Dorianne Laux is an American poet.
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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.
Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is program director of North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and is a professor at the MFA in Writing program at Pacific University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Seattle Review, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and Zyzzyva.
Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. She has one daughter.

Awards

Works

Anthologies

Best of The American Poetry ReviewThe Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Performance

The Poetry Brothel The Poetry Society of New York

As editor

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