Background
Muske-Dukes, Carol Ann was born on December 17, 1945 in St. Paul. Daughter of William Howard and Elizabeth Katherine Muske.
Muske-Dukes, Carol Ann was born on December 17, 1945 in St. Paul. Daughter of William Howard and Elizabeth Katherine Muske.
She is one of the founding members of the University of Southern California Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing & Literature, where she currently teaches. She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from University of Southern California in May 2005, and she is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000.
She received Bachelor of Arts English from Creighton University in 1967, and her Master of Arts in 1970 from the San Francisco State University. She has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers" Workshop, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Virginia. In addition to her seven books of poetry, she has published four novels, the most recent of which, Channeling Mark Twain (2007), is about a woman 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.
Her work has appeared in Antaeus, Ploughshares, Paris Review, and The New Yorker.
Member Poetry Society American (Board of Governors since 1995, Di Castagnola award), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Authors Guild.
Married Edward B. Healton, July 9, 1971 (divorced 1978). Married David C. Dukes, January 31, 1983. 1 child, Annie Cameron Muske-Dukes.