Carol Muske-Dukes is the author of eight books of poems, four novels, and two essay collections, and is an editor of two anthologies, including
Crossing State Lines: An American Renga, which she coedited with Bob Holman. Many of her books have been New York Times Notable selections. Muske-Dukes is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she founded the PhD program in creative writing and literature, and she recently fulfilled her appointment as poet laureate of California, appointed by the governor's office. Her poetry collection
Sparrow was a National Book Award finalist and she is a six-time Pushcart Prize winner. She writes for the
New York Times Book Review and the
New York Times op-ed page, the
Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and the
New Yorker's
Page-Turner blog. Her poems have been published and anthologized widely, including in several editions of
Best American Poetry. Muske-Dukes has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Library of Congress award, Barnes & Noble's Writer for Writers Award, and many other honors. She lives in Southern California and New York.
