Background
Laux, Dorianne L. was born on January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine, United States. Daughter of Alton Green and Frances Laux.
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Dorianne L. Laux
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She is a professor at North Carolina State University’s creative writing program, and the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Pacific University.
Career
Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work appeared in American Poetry Review, Five Points, Kenyon Review, Mississippi, Orion, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Zyzzyva.
She has also appeared in online journals such as Web Delegate Sol. She has one daughter.
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Married Joseph Millar. Children: Tristem, Daniel Millar.
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Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Guggenheim Fellowships awarded; National Book Critics Circle Award The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men Pushcart Prize Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts The Best American Poetry 1999 The Best American Poetry 2006 The Best American Poetry 2013 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001 Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Guggenheim Fellowships awarded; National Book Critics Circle Award The Paterson Prize for The Book of Men The Roanoke-Chowan Award for The Book of Men Pushcart Prize Two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts The Best American Poetry 1999 The Best American Poetry 2006 The Best American Poetry 2013 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2001 Oregon Book Award for Facts about the Moon, selected by Ai 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize shortlisted for Facts about the Moon National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for What We Carry The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.