Dorothea Lasky
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Dorothea Lasky is the author of seven collections of poetry and prose: ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and The Shining, Animal, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Ducking Presse, 2010). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Boston Review, among other places. She is the editor of Essays (Essay Press), the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (McSweeney's) and the co-author (with Alex Dimitrov) of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (Flatiron Books). She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts, directs the Poetry Program, and is the Co-Faculty Advisor of Columbia Artist/Teachers.
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