Dorianne Laux’s most recent books of poems are Life on Earth and Finnger Exercises for Poets. She also author of The Book of Men (2011) and Facts about the Moon (2007) in addition to Awake, What We Carry, finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, and Smoke, and a fine small press edition on Kindle, The Book of Women, from Red Dragonfly Press. Co-author of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, Laux teaches for Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Maine Media. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Korean, Romanian, Dutch, Afrikkans and Brazilian Portuguese and her selected works, In a Room with a Rag in my Hand, have been translated into Arabic by Camel/Kalima Press, and French by Editions du Cygne, Paris. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Orion, Tin House, Oxford American, BOAAT, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Everywhere, highlights from The Dodge Poetry Festival. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, taught in Raleigh, NC where they taught poetry in the MFA program at North Carolina State University. They are founding faculty for Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program. You can reach her at https://www.doriannelaux.com/ [2]