Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky has published collections of poetry including The Shining (Wave Books, 2023), Milk (2018), ROME (2014), Thunderbird (2012), Black Life (2010), and AWE (2007), as well as several chapbooks, including Snakes (2017) and Poetry Is Not a Project (2010). She is the editor of Essays (2021) and co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (2013). Lasky has published two books of essays: Memory (2025) and Animal (2019). Lasky’s poems have appeared in a number of publications, including the New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. (Source)