Dorothea Lasky

Assistant Professor

Dorothea Lasky is a poet and is the author of Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books.  She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Press, 2010), The Blue Teratorn (YesYes Books, 2012), and Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012).  Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review, among other places.  She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry.  She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been educated at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Washington University.