Dorianne Laux

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

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.

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

Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Ms., Orion, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Seattle Review, Tin House, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva, and Gulf Coast. It has also been published in The Best of The American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and The Best American Poetry 1999, 2006, 2013, and 2017.

Laux lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, poet Joseph Millar. She has one daughter.

Awards Pulitzer Prize finalist for Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems Paterson Prize for The Book of Men Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men Pushcart Prize Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry National Book Award for Poetry longlist for Life on Earth

Works Re-issued by Eastern Washington University Press.

The Book of Women. Red Dragonfly Press. 2012 . Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems. W. W. Norton. 2019. Life on Earth. W.W. Norton. 2024. .

As co-author

As translator