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Dorianne Laux
Professor
Poetry541-346-0536
dlaux@uoregon.edu
www.poets.org
B.A., Mills College. Author of Awake, What We Carry, and Smoke (BOA Editions) and Facts About the Moon (W.W. Norton, 2005) as well as The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best of the American Poetry Review, The Harvard Review, The New England Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenanodoah, Ploughshares, ZYZZYVA, The Washington Post, DoubleTake, Five Points, Barrow Street, and others. She's the two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, an Editor's Choice III award, a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in the United States the previous year. Her book Facts About the Moon won her the honor of the 2007 Oregon Book Award. Laux has been a fellow at BreadLoaf and contributing editor of Poetry Flash.
For 2006-2007, Laux will teach undergraduate and graduate poetry workshops.
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5243 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5243
Phone: (541) 346-3944
Fax: (541) 346-0537
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