Featured Biographies
Dorothea Lasky
AUTHOR
Dorothea Lasky is the author of ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), as well as Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books. She is a co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and has authored many chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous places, including The Paris Review and 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. She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, is a co-founder of the Ashbery Home School, served as a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer in Poetry, and co-directs Writers in Florence with Jessica Flynn. She lives in Brooklyn and can be found online at dorothealasky.tumblr.com.
Eileen Myles
AUTHOR
Eileen Myles (poetry faculty) was born in Boston (1949) and moved to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets (poems, 2012) is the latest of her 18 books. Inferno (a poet’s novel) came out in 2010, and is now available on i-Tunes in her own voice. For The Importance of Being Iceland/Travel Essays in Art she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Myles the Shelley Prize. She’s a 2012 Guggenheim fellow and in 2014 she won a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in Poetry. She lives in New York.