Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky in 2014
Born1978 (age 42–43)
St. Louis, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWashington University;
University of Massachusetts Amherst;
Harvard University;
University of Pennsylvania
GenrePoetry
SubjectPoetry
Website
www.dorothealasky.com

Background and education

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. She graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1996.[1] She earned a BA in classics and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.[2] She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers,[3] and her Ed.M. in Arts & Education from Harvard University, and her Ed.D. in Creativity and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has appeared in The Paris Review,[4] Boston Review,[5] and the New Yorker.[6]

Bibliography
Full-length collections
  • Animal. Wave Books, 2019. ISBN 9781940696911
  • Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. With Alex Dimitrov. Flatiron Books, 2019. ISBN 9781250313300
  • Milk Wave Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1940696645
  • I Used to Be a Witch. Winston-Salem, NC: Fjords. 2017.
  • Rome: Poems. Liveright. 29 September 2014. ISBN 978-0-87140-940-9.[7]
  • Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books. 2013. Ed. with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan.
  • Matter: A Picturebook. New York: Argos Books. 2012.
  • Rome, Liveright, 2012, ISBN 9780871409393
  • Thunderbird. Wave Books. 11 September 2012. ISBN 978-1-933517-63-6.
  • Black Life. Wave Books. 1 April 2010. ISBN 978-1-933517-43-8.
  • Awe. Wave Books. 1 September 2007. ISBN 978-1-933517-24-7.
Chapbooks & pamphlets
  • Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2018)
  • Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010)
  • Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008)
  • The Hatmaker's Wife (2006)
  • Art (H NGM N Press, 2005)
  • Alphabets & Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004)

References
  1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 08 April 1996, p. 12.
  2. "Dorothea Lasky". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. "Dorothea Lasky". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. Four PoemsDorothea LaskyArchived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Dorothea Lasky in Boston Review's Poet's Sampler, April/May, 2005
  6. Dorothea Lasky's poem, "Tornado," in The New Yorker Archived 2010-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Ortiz, Isabel. "Feministing Readz: Dorothea Lasky's Rome". Feministing. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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