Dorothea Lasky is the author of six full-length collections of poetry: The Shining, Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, AWE, all out from Wave Books, as well as ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton). In addition, she's published her poems in several chapbook collections, such as Snakes (Tungsten Press), Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books), and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse). Individual poems can be found in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and POETRY, among other places. She's the author of two nonfiction books, Animal (Wave Books) and the forthcoming MEMORY from Semiotext(e). She edited Essays (Essay Press) and co-edited Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry (McSweeney's). Currently, she teaches poetry at Columbia University School of the Arts and directs the Poetry concentration.