Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952 Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.

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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. [1]

Laux taught at the University of Oregon.[2] She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University.[3] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner,[4] Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.[5]

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, poet Joseph Millar and has a daughter, Tristem.

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