Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in 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, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, and Zyzzyva.

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

Awards

 * Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems
 * The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men
 * The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men
 * Pushcart Prize
 * Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
 * The Best American Poetry 1999
 * The Best American Poetry 2006
 * The Best American Poetry 2013
 * The Best American Poetry 2017
 * Guggenheim Fellowship
 * 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

Works

 * re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press
 * Superman: The Chapbook Red Dragonfly Press January 2008
 * Dark Charms Red Dragonfly Press 2010
 * The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
 * Ce que nous portons, Translation of What We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0
 * Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338
 * The Book of Women, Red Dragonfly Press 2012 ISBN 9781937693046
 * Ce que nous portons, Translation of What We Carry by Hélène Cardona, Editions du Cygne 2014 ISBN 978-2-84924-377-0
 * Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338
 * Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338

Anthologies

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

Performance

 * The Poetry Brothel The Poetry Society of New York''