Dorothy Barresi
Dorothy Barresi is the author of three books of poetry: Rouge Pulp, (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2002); The Post-Rapture Diner (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), winner of an American Book Award; and All of the the Above (Beacon Press, 1991). She has recently completed her fourth collection of poems, American Fanatics. Her essays and poems have been widely published, and she is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, the Emily Clark Balch Prize from the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge where she has taught for twenty years.