Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and prose: ROME and Animal, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE. Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry and the co-author with Alex Dimitrov of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac. She is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and directs the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program.