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Dorothy Barresi
MFA in Creative Writing,
University of Massachusetts, 1986

Professor,
CSU, Northridge:
Poetry, Essay Writing

Dorothy Barresi is the author of The Post-Rapture Diner (1996), which won an American Book Award, and All of the Above (1991), which won the Barnard College New Women Poets Prize.  Her third collection of poetry is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.  Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Parnassus, and The Antioch Review. She is the recipient of Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the North Carolina Arts Council, and she has won a Pushcart Prize. From 1994-1997 she served as a judge for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry. She is currently Chair of the Creative Writing Option in the English Department of California State University, Northridge.

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