Dorothea Lasky, Astro Poet, is coming to Unbound!

We’re very pleased to welcome Dorothea Lasky to Unbound this April!

Dorothea is the author of five full-length collections of poetry: Milk (Wave Books, 2018), Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). Her forthcoming essay collection, Animal, was published by Wave Books in October, 2019. She is also the author of several chapbooks.

Dorothea’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, The New Yorker, Tin House, and The Paris Review, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and was a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry.

Along with Alex Dimitrov, she is one half of the Astro Poets, whose book, Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac, was published by Flatiron Books in October, 2019.

She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Born in St. Louis, she is currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program. She lives in New York City.