Dorothea Lasky is a poet from St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA at Washington University, an MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lasky has published multiple collections of poetry – AWE (2007), Black Life (2010), ROME (2014), and Milk (2018) – as well as chapbooks, including Poetry is not a Project (2010) and Snakes (2017). Lasky also co-wrote Astro Poets: Your Guide to the Zodiac (2019) and is involved in writing for the Astro Poets Twitter account. She is currently an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University.
Information from the Poetry Foundation and Lasky’s website.
