Carol Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes
Born	Carol Muske 1945 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Creighton University; San Francisco State University
Spouse	David Dukes
Children	Annie Muske-Dukes

Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011). Her most recent book of poetry, Sparrow (Random House, 2003), chronicling the love and loss of Muske-Dukes’ late husband, actor David Dukes, was a National Book Award finalist.

Life

She received B.A. English from Creighton University in 1967, and her M.A. in 1970 from the San Francisco State University. She has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Virginia. She is one of the founding members of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, where she currently teaches.

She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from USC in May 2005, and she is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000.

In addition to her seven books of poetry, she has published four novels, the most recent of which, Channeling Mark Twain (2007), is about a woman poet who teaches poetry at a women's detention facility, just as the author herself did and the perspectives she gains from the poetry her students write. Her work has appeared in Antaeus, Ploughshares, Paris Review, and The New Yorker,.

Awards

• 1999 Witter Bynner Fellowship
• 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1979 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
• Ingram Merrill grant

Published works

Poetry collections

Collaborative works

• Rendezvous with light: A Collection of Poetry and Photographs: Carol Muske-Dukes and Robbie Kreinces (Figueroa Press, 2005)

Novels

Essay collections

• Women & Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self (University of Michigan Press, 1997)

Anthologies

Sources

• Library of Congress Online Catalog : Carol Muske-Dukes
• National Book Foundation : 2003 National Book Award Finalist: Poetry : Carol Muske-Dukes

External links

• Author Website
• Poetry Foundation : Carol Muske-Dukes
• Random House : Author Page : Carol Muske-Dukes
• Audio: NPR Fresh Air : Interview: Carol Muske-Dukes, Channeling Mark Twain
• Audio: Bookworm : Michael Silverblatt Interviews Carol-Muske-Dukes About Channeling Mark Twain : Dec. 20, 2007
• Good Golly A Review by Carol Muske-Dukes in The New York Times Sunday Book Review : of The House on the Boulevard St. By David Kirby : April 29, 2007