Dawn-Michelle Baude | |
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| Born | (1959-01-15)January 15, 1959 (age 66) Southern Illinois, United States |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism |
Dawn-Michelle Baude (born January 15, 1959) is anAmerican poet, journalist and educator.
Born insouthern Illinois, Baude moved toSan Diego, California, in 1977 with her first husband Angelo Kolokithas (divorced 1979). Baude received her undergraduate degree fromSan Diego State University. While pursuing her graduate degree atNew College of California, she was influenced byRobert Duncan and otherBay Area writers active in the 1980s. She received her MA from New College in 1986. She earned an MFA fromMills College shortly thereafter.
In the late 1980s, she moved toAthens, Greece, then toParis, France, where she marriedLaurent Baude (divorced 2008). Influenced by the poetsAlice Notley andDouglas Oliver, she published poetry[1] as well as art criticism.[2] She was a frequent contributor to various Condé Nast and Meredith publications, appearing with the bylines Dawn Kolokithas and Dawn-Michelle Baude, as well as underpseudonyms.
In the 1990s, she lived in Egypt, Lebanon and France. She gave birth to her son, Alexandre, in 1996—the same year she received herDiplôme d'études approfondies from theSorbonne. She joined the faculty ofBard College's Lacoste School of the Arts program in southern France, during which time she met poetGustaf Sobin, artistCurt Asker, composerAnders Hillborg, writerDavid Ambrose, filmmakerPeter Montagnon and other habitués of theProvence region.
She has taught at theUniversité de Paris, theAmerican University of Beirut,Alexandria University (Egypt),John Cabot University (Rome, Italy), and theAmerican University of Paris.[3] She earned her PhD in English from theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. In 2007, after 18 years abroad, she returned to the US to make her home in the state of New York. In 2011, Baude moved toLas Vegas,Nevada, where she blogs for theLas Vegas Weekly,Huffington Post, and others.
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