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Dorianne Laux’s sixth poetry collection, Only as The Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019), was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded the Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon, won the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and in The Best American Poetry four times. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Laux was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020. Her most recent collection, Life on Earth, was published by W.W. Norton in January 2024 and longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award. In July, 2024, Norton also published Finger Exercises for Poets, a book of craft essays and exercises.