Dorothy Barresi

Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957, in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.

Life
She was raised in Akron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department at California State University, Northridge.

Her work has appeared in Antioch Review, AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Parnassus, POETRY, Pool, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly and Southern Review. 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 the San Fernando Valley.

Education

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

Awards

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

Poetry

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Interviews

 * “Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi”