Dorothy Barresi (born November 13, 1957 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet.
Life
She was raised in Akron, Ohio. She teaches in the English Department at California State University, Northridge.
Her work has appeared in Antioch Review, AGNI, Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Parnassus, POETRY, Pool, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Triquarterly and Southern Review. She has served often as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry.
She is married to Phil Matero, and they have sons Andrew and Dante. They live in the San Fernando Valley.
Education
MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1985
MA, University of Pittsburgh 1981
BA, University of Akron 1979
Awards
18th annual American Book Award sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), North Carolina Arts Council. Pushcart Prize (twice) Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize Emily Clark Balch Prize Virginia Quarterly Review Grand Prize, Los Angeles Poetry Festival's Fin de Millennium poetry competition. 1990 Barnard Women Poets Prize 2014 Dagbert L. Cunningham Award for work in the field of semi-poetics.
Works
Poetry
(chapbook)
Anthologies
Interviews
“Showcased Writer: Dorothy Barresi”
See also
List of poets from the United States
References
Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000143831.
External links
"An Interview with Dorothy Barresi", West Point, Janine Hauber and Mary Hood
"‘What we did while we made more guns’ confronts the violence of extreme belief." PBS NewsHour, Jennifer Hijazi Dorothy Barresi on Instagram
1957 births
Living people
University of Pittsburgh alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
University of Akron alumni
American women poets
Poets from New York (state) 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers American Book Award winners 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers Writers from Buffalo, New York Poets from Ohio Writers from Akron, Ohio
