Dorianne Laux

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.^[1]

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.^[2] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion,^[3] Ploughshares, and Zyzzyva.^[4]

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar.^[2] She has one daughter.^[5]

• 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^[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 for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai^[1]
• 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon
• National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry
• Life on Earth longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry^[8]

• Awake. introduced by Philip Levine. BOA Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-918526-76-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) re-issued by Eastern 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 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^[9][10]
• Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, W. W. Norton 2019 ISBN 978-0393652338^[11]

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

• The Poetry Brothel The 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. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

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

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