Dara Barrois/Dixon

Poet

North Amherst, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
darawier@gmail.com
Twitter/X: 
@darawier

Author's Bio

Born in New Olreans, Louisiana, lives in western Massachusetts, new book is TOLSTOY KILLED ANNA KARENINA (Wave 2022); other recent books include IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, YOU GOOD THING, REVERSE RAPTURE, new chapbooks from Scram Press and Incessant Pipe

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
12 X 12 (University of Iowa Press, 2009)
,
American Hybrid (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009)
,
The Best American Poetry 2009 (Scribner, 2009)
,
Pushcart Prize Anthology (Pushcart Press, 2005)
,
Best American Poetry (Penguin/Putnam, 2003)
Books:
Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina (Wave Books, 2022)
,
in the still of the night (Wave Books, 2018)
,
YOU GOOD THING (Wave Books, 2013)
,
Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2009)
,
Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006)
,
Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005)
,
Hat on a Pond (Verse Press, 2002)
,
Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001)
,
Our Master Plan (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
,
Blue for the Plough (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992)
,
The Book of Knowledge (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1988)
Journals:
American Poetry Review
,
Conduit
,
Fence
,
Gettysburg Review
,
Hollins Critic
,
jubilat
,
Massachusetts Review
,
New American Writing
,
Octopus Magazine
,
Verse
,
Volt
Prizes won: 

The Poetry Center Prize for REVERSE RAPTURE

Jerome Shestack Prize for a set of poems in AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Massachusetts Cultural Council

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Other
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana
Raised in: 
Plaquemines Parish, LA
Louisiana
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Last update: Sep 15, 2022