Hello and thank you for visiting my website!

I am the author of six full-length collections of poetry and one book of prose, Animal (Wave Books). My latest poetry book is forthcoming from Wave Books and is called The Shining. 

I am also the author of ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and Milk, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all out from Wave Books. I co-wrote Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac (Flatiron Books, 2019) with the poet, Alex Dimitrov. 

I have written several chapbooks, including Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2017) and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Ducking Presse, 2010). My writing has appeared in POETRY, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Boston Review, among other places. I am a co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney’s, 2013) and the editor of the forthcoming Essays (Essay Press, 2023). 

I am a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. I have a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania. I also have been educated at Harvard University (where I was part of their Arts in Education program) and Washington University. I am always looking for more opportunities to do research on creativity and education, so please contact me if you are interested in collaborating in a research project. 

I have taught poetry at New York University (where I directed their Writers in Florence program), Wesleyan University, and Bennington College, among other places. In 2013, I was a Bagley Wright Fellow in Poetry.

Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where I direct the Poetry Concentration in the MFA program, act as a co-Faculty Advisor for Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), and organize the summer writing program. I live in New York City.

For book inquiries, please contact Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency. If you are interested in booking me for an event, please contact Leslie Shipman at The Shipman Agency. Otherwise, I can be reached via email: dottielasky at gmail dot com. My Twitter and Instagram are @dorothealasky.

I love to teach and make things more than I like to do anything.