Dorianne Laux
Born	(1952-01-10)January 10, 1952 (age 73) Augusta,Maine
Occupation	Poet, professor
Education	Mills College (BA)
Notable works	The Book of Men (2011),Facts about the Moon (2005),What We Carry (1994)
Spouse	Joseph Millar
Children	1
Website
doriannelaux.com

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, inAugusta, Maine) is anAmerican poet.

Laux worked as asanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving aB.A. in English fromMills College in 1988.^[1]

Laux taught at theUniversity of Oregon. She is a professor atNorth Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and theMFA in Writing Program atPacific University.^[2] She is also a contributing editor atThe Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared inAmerican Poetry Review,Kenyon Review,Ms.,Orion,^[3]Ploughshares, andZyzzyva.^[4]

Laux lives inRaleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poetJoseph Millar.^[2] She has one daughter.^[5]

• Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
• The Paterson Prize forThe Book of Men
• The Roanoke-Chowan Award forThe Book of Men
• Pushcart Prize
• Two fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts^[6]
• The Best American Poetry 1999
• The Best American Poetry 2006
• The Best American Poetry 2013
• The Best American Poetry 2017
• Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]
• Oregon Book Award forFacts about the Moon, selected byAi^[1]
• 2006Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted forFacts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist forWhat We Carry
• Life on Earth longlisted for the 2024National Book Award for Poetry^[8]

• Awake. introduced byPhilip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990.ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) re-issued byEastern Washington University Press
• What We Carry. BOA Editions. 1994.ISBN 978-1-880238-07-3.
• Smoke. BOA Editions. 2000.ISBN 978-1-880238-86-8.
• Facts about the Moon.W. W. Norton & Company. 2005.ISBN 978-0-393-32962-9.
• Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008^[1]
• Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
• The Book of Men: Poems. W. W. Norton. 28 February 2011.ISBN 978-0-393-07955-5.
• The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012ISBN 9781937693046
• Ce que nous portons, Translation ofWhat We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0^[9][10]
• Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019ISBN 978-0393652338^[11]

• Best ofThe American Poetry Review
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• four citations inBest American Poetry.

• The Poetry BrothelThe Poetry Society of New York

• Kim Addonizio; Dorianne Laux (1997).The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton.ISBN 978-0-393-31654-4.Dorianne Laux.

• "Facts about the Poet"(PDF).Literary Reference. Winter 2006. Retrieved8 January 2012.

• Official website
• Guide to the Dorianne Louise Laux Papers 1968-2019
• Dorianne Laux's poem"Home Movies" inGulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).

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

• 1952 births
• Living people
• Pacific University faculty
• People from Augusta, Maine
• Writers from Eugene, Oregon
• Writers from Raleigh, North Carolina
• University of Oregon faculty
• North Carolina State University faculty
• American women poets
• 20th-century American poets
• 20th-century American women writers
• Mills College alumni
• Poets from Maine
• Poets from Oregon
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers

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• Short description matches Wikidata
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