Dorianne Laux

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Dorianne Laux
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Born (1952-01-10) January 10, 1952 (age 73)
Augusta, Maine
OccupationPoet, professor
Education Mills College (BA)
Notable worksThe Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994)
Spouse Joseph Millar
Children1
Website
doriannelaux.com

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) 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. [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]

Awards

Works

Anthologies

Performance

As editor

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dorianne Laux". Poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  2. "Interview // Elegies to What Was: A Conversation with Dorianne Laux". Poetry Northwest. 2019-06-14. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  3. "Dorianne Laux". College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  4. "Dorianne Laux". Pacific University. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  5. "AQR Team". Alaska Quarterly Review. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  6. "Night". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  7. "Index of Published Works". ZYZZYVA. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  8. "Dorianne Laux". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  9. "The poetry box". WALTER Magazine. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2025-07-03.
  10. "Dorianne Laux". Web Del Sol. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  11. "Dorianne Laux". Writers' Corner. National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  12. "Dorianne Laux". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  13. "The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist". The New Yorker. 12 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  14. "Reviewed by Vincent Motard-Avargues in La Cause Littéraire".
  15. "Interviewed by Hélène Cardona in Plume".
  16. "Reviewed by Andrew Jarvis in New York Journal of Books".

Gave a review to poet Jessica Cuello's book "Liar."