Dorothea Lasky's first book, AWE, was published by Wave in 2007. She is the author of three chapbooks, The Hatmaker's Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004) and a forthcoming chapbook from Transmission Press in 2008. Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, Octopus, Absent, Forklift, Ohio, Coconut, Small Town, Typo, Fou, and Carve, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry and visual art at Heath Elementary School, The New England Institute of Art, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series (along with poet, Michael Carr) and researches creativity through the SPARK! program, while pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.
Read "Emotions" from AWE on the Poets & Writers website.
Read a review of AWE on Bookslut.
Read a review of AWE in Growler.
Read a review of AWE on Rob McLennan's Blog.
Read an interview with Dorothea Lasky at Publishers Weekly.
Read an interview with Dorothea Lasky on Bookslut.
Read an interview with Dorothea Lasky on kickingwind.com.
Check out a live recording of Dorothea Lasky answering the Proust Questionnaire at Weird Deer.
Listen to a recording of her reading at the Kelly Writers House at UPenn.
Read an interview where she and Michael Carr discuss Katalanche Press.
PennSound presents Dorothea Lasky reading "The Process of Explication"
PennSound presents Dorothea Lasky reading "Outside Chattanooga, Tennessee"
PennSound presents Dorothea Lasky reading "On Old Ideas"
reviews of Dorothea Lasky's work:
Rob McLennan — 04/09/2008
Local IQ — 11/11/2007
Bookslut — 10/01/2007
Publishers Weekly — 08/20/2007
Barn Owl Review — 03/01/2007
Diagram — 07/01/0009