Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky is an American poet born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, who earned a BA from Washington University, an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous poetry collections including The Shining (2023), Milk (2018), ROME (2014), Thunderbird (2012), Black Life (2010), and AWE (2007), as well as prose works like Animal (2019) and MEMORY (2025), with her poems appearing in publications such as The New Yorker and Paris Review. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she directs the poetry program, and lives in New York City.