Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

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 a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and has a daughter.

Awards

 * Pushcart Prize
 * two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
 * The Best American Poetry 1999
 * The Best American Poetry 2006
 * List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001
 * Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai
 * 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
 * National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry

Publications

 * re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
 * Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008
 * "Dark Charms" Red Dragonfly Press 2010 http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
 * The Book of Men W.W. Norton February 2011 http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/
 * Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008
 * "Dark Charms" Red Dragonfly Press 2010 http://www.reddragonflypress.org/music/3108
 * The Book of Men W.W. Norton February 2011 http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Book-of-Men/

Anthologized

 * Best of The American Poetry Review
 * The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
 * twice in Best American Poetry.