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About Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is the author most recently of The Wild Wind in the Space of the Word published in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series from Wave Books (Wave Books forthcoming). She is also the author of several full-length collections of poetry including Milk (Wave Books 2018) Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton 2014) Thunderbird (Wave Books 2012) Black Life (Wave Books 2010) and AWE (Wave Books 2007) and is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's 2013). She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University Wesleyan University and Bennington College. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.