Education
She earned an Master of Fine Arts from Mills College shortly thereafter.
She earned an Master of Fine Arts from Mills College shortly thereafter.
Born in southern Illinois, Moved to San Diego, Ca. Baude received her undergraduate degree from San Diego State University. While pursuing her graduate degree at New College of California, she was influenced by Robert Duncan and other Bay Area writers active in the 1980s.
She received her Master of Arts from New College in 1986.
Influenced by the poets Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver, she published poetry as well as art criticism. She was a frequent contributor to various Condé Nast and Meredith publications, appearing with the bylines Dawn Kolokithas and Dawn-Michelle Baude, as well as under pseudonyms.
In the 1990s, she lived in Egypt, Lebanon and France. She joined the faculty of Bard College"s Lacoste School of the Arts program, during which time she met poet Gustaf Sobin, artist Curt Asker, composer Anders Hillborg, writer David Ambrose, filmmaker Peter Montagnon and other habitués of the Provence region.
She has taught at the Université de Paris, the American University of Beirut, Alexandria University (Egypt), John Cabot University (Rome, Italy), and the American University of Paris.
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003. In 2007, after 18 years abroad, she returned to the United States to make her home in the state of New New York In 2011 Baude moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she launched the blog Mind in Vegas to record her observations of art, culture, nature and daily life in a city known primarily for its casinos.