Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky has published several collections of poetry: Milk (2018), ROME (2014), Thunderbird (2012), Black Life (2010), and AWE (2007), as well as several chapbooks, including Snakes (2017) and Poetry Is Not a Project (2010). She is the editor of Essays (2021) and co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (2013). In 2019, Lasky published Animal, a book of prose essays on the craft of poetry. Lasky’s poems have appeared in a number of publications, including the New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review.
Dorothea Lasky was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA from Washington University, an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Masters in Arts Education from Harvard University, and a doctorate in Creativity and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Lasky was awarded a Bagley Wright Fellowship in 2013, and currently, she is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University, where she directs the poetry program.
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