Carol Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes (born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1945) is an American poet. Her first book of poetry was "Camouflage" (1975). In addition to publishing seven works of poetry, she has written four novels, the most recent of which, "Channeling Mark Twain" (2007), about a women poet who teaches poetry at a women's detention facility, just as the author herself did and the perspectives she gains from the poetry her students write. [ Kaminski, Margot, 2007 "Prison Poets Give Teacher New Outlook", "San Francisco Chronicle", July 15, pp. M1-2.] She teaches English and creative writing in the doctoral Program in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, which she founded. Her literary awards include the 1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America and a Witter/Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. [ Academy of American Poets: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/26 ] Her poems are featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies.

She is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000.

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