Dorianne Laux

Dorianne Laux is the author of two collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) and What We Carry (1994), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997) which has been chosen as an alternative selection by Book of the Month Club, Quality Paperbacks and Writer's Digest.  Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize for poetry and a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts.  Recent poems have appeared in The Harvard Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, and DoubleTake.  Her poetry can also be heard on National Public Radio's "The Writer's Almanac," hosted by Garrison Keillor. Presently she is at work on a libretto with composer Wally Brill of San Anselmo, as well as a new book of poems tentatively titled Music in the Morning.  She is director of the University of Oregon's Program in Creative Writing.