Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux studied at Mills College at Northeastern University. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with North Carolina State University, University of Oregon and Pacific University. Work by Dorianne Laux is recorded in the collections of Oregon Poetry Collection. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Dorianne Laux • Born — 10 January 1952 • Birthplace — Augusta, Maine • Occupation — Poet, professor • Education — Mills College (BA) • Children — 1 • Notable Works — The Book of Men (2011), Facts about the Moon (2005), What We Carry (1994) • Spouse — Joseph Millar • Website — http: doriannelaux.com

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 the 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, Zyzzyva, and Gulf Coast. It has also been published in The Best of The American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and The Best American Poetry 1999, 2006, 2013, and 2017. Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. She has one daughter.

• Re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press. * * * * * * • The Book of Women. Red Dragonfly Press. 2012. • Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems. W. W. Norton. 2019. • Life on Earth. W.W. Norton. 2024..

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