Dorianne Laux | |
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Born | Augusta, Maine | January 10, 1952
Occupation | Poet, professor |
Education | Mills College (BA) |
Notable works | The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994) |
Spouse | Joseph Millar |
Children | 1 |
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Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.
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. [1]
Laux taught at the University of Oregon. [2] She is program director of North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, [3] and is a professor at the MFA in Writing program at Pacific University. [4] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review. [5]
Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review , The Kenyon Review , Ms., Orion , [6] Ploughshares , The Southern Review, The Seattle Review, Tin House, TriQuarterly , and Zyzzyva . [7] [8]
Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. [9] She has one daughter. [10]
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Gave a review to poet Jessica Cuello's book "Liar."