Dorothea Lasky

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Dorothea Lasky
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Dorothea Lasky in 2014
Born1978 (age 42–43)
St. Louis, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Washington University;
University of Massachusetts Amherst;
Harvard University;
University of Pennsylvania
GenrePoetry
SubjectPoetry
Website
www.dorothealasky.com

Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.

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Background and education

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1996. [1] She earned a BA in classics and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. [2] She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers, [3] and her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Creativity and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, [4] Boston Review, [5] and the New Yorker. [6]

Bibliography

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Chapbooks & pamphlets

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References

  1. ↑ St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 08 April 1996, p. 12.
  2. ↑ "Dorothea Lasky". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Dorothea Lasky". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Four PoemsDorothea Lasky Archived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Dorothea Lasky in Boston Review's Poet's Sampler, April/May, 2005
  6. ↑ Dorothea Lasky's poem, "Tornado," in The New Yorker Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Ortiz, Isabel. "Feministing Readz: Dorothea Lasky's Rome". Feministing. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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