Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957, inBuffalo, New York) is an Americanpoet.

She was raised inAkron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department atCalifornia State University, Northridge.^[1]

Her work has appeared inAntioch Review,^[2]AGNI,^[3]Gettysburg Review,Harvard Review,Indiana Review,^[4]Kenyon Review,Mid-American Review,^[5]Parnassus,POETRY,Pool,^[6]Ploughshares,^[7]Virginia Quarterly Review,Triquarterly andSouthern Review.^[8] She has served often as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.

She is married to Phil Matero, and they have sons Andrew and Dante. They live in theSan Fernando Valley.^[9]

• MFA,University of Massachusetts Amherst 1985
• MA,University of Pittsburgh 1981
• BA,University of Akron 1979

• 18th annualAmerican Book Award sponsored by theBefore Columbus Foundation
• Fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts, theFine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), North Carolina Arts Council.
• Pushcart Prize (twice)
• Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize
• Emily Clark Balch PrizeVirginia Quarterly Review
• Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competition.
• 1990Barnard Women Poets Prize
• 2014 Dagbert L. Cunningham Award for work in the field of semi-poetics.

• "How It Comes".Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived fromthe original on 17 July 2002.
• "The Hole in the Ceiling".Ploughshares. Winter 1986. Archived fromthe original on 17 July 2002.
• "Poem for the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of Valium".Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter 2002. RetrievedJune 22, 2015.
• "Something in the House Was"(PDF).West Branch 62. 2008. RetrievedJune 22, 2015.
• "Stereotype"(PDF).West Branch 62. 2008. RetrievedJune 22, 2015.
• "The Garbage Keepers".Rattle. September 21, 2013. RetrievedSeptember 23, 2015.
• "Head Lice Circus: Shock and Awe".Redheaded Stepchild. RetrievedSeptember 23, 2015.
• "My Powers".Redheaded Stepchild. RetrievedSeptember 23, 2015.

• American Fanatics. Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.ISBN 978-0-8229-6079-9.
• Rouge Pulp. Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh Press. 2002.ISBN 978-0-8229-5789-8.
• Mother, My Porous China. Laguna Beach: The Inevitable Press. 1998.ISBN 978-1-891281-10-5. (chapbook)
• Post-Rapture Diner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996.ISBN 978-0-8229-3896-5.
• All of the Above. Boston:Beacon Press. 1991.ISBN 978-0-8070-6815-1.Dorothy Barresi.
• The Judas Clock. Blythewood: Devil's Millhopper Press. 1986.
• Re-crossing the Equator. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1985.

• Louise DeSalvo;Edvige Giunta, eds. (2003)."Poem".The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Feminist Press.ISBN 978-1-55861-453-6.
• Jim Elledge; Susan Swartwout, eds. (1999). "When I think of America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramdem)".Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry. Indiana University Press. p. 175.ISBN 978-0-253-21229-0.Dorothy Barresi.
• Maggie Anderson; Dorothy Barresi; Quan Barry; Jan Beatty; Robin Becker; Richard Blanco; Christopher Bursk; Anthony Butts; Lorna Dee Cervantes (2007). Ochester (ed.).American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press.ISBN 978-0-8229-5964-9.
• Pamela Gemin; Paula Sergi, eds. (1999).Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press.ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.

• “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi”"Silk Road". February 25, 2015. RetrievedSeptember 23, 2015.{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help)

• List of poets from the United States

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.

• "An Interview with Dorothy Barresi",West Point, Janine Hauber and Mary Hood
• "‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief."PBS NewsHour, Jennifer Hijazi
• Dorothy Barresi onInstagram

• 1957 births
• Living people
• University of Pittsburgh alumni
• University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
• University of Akron alumni
• American women poets
• Poets from New York (state)
• 20th-century American poets
• 20th-century American women writers
• American Book Award winners
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers
• Writers from Buffalo, New York
• Poets from Ohio
• Writers from Akron, Ohio

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