A poet born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothea Lasky holds a BA from Washington University, an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her six collections are AWE (Wave Books, 2007), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), ROME (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2014), Milk (Wave Books, 2018), and The Shining (Wave Books, 2023). She also published the essay collections Animal (2019) and Memory (2025). A 2013 Bagley Wright Fellow, she is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts.
