Carol Muske-Dukes’ thirteen books include seven volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Sparrow, a National Book Award finalist 2003, four novels including Channeling Mark Twain and two collections of essays including Women in Poetry. Her books have been nominated for the LA Times Book Prize, and have been New York Times Most Notable Books, and have won many awards including several Pushcart Prizes. Carol’s currently Poet Laureate of the State of California. Her statewide project is the Magic Poetry Bus. The Magic Poetry Bus Driver’s Guide will be an interactive online and print handbook to teaching and learning poetry, which will be distributed free to California’s public school system. Carol’s awards include Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA, Dylan Thomas Poetry Award, Library of Congress Award, etc. Carol writes for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and blogs for the Huffington Post.

Crossing State Lines: An American Renga (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011), Twin Cities (Penguin Poets, 2011), Channeling Mark Twain (Random House, 2007), Sparrow (Random House, 2002), An Octave Above Thunder: New & Selected (Penguin, 1997), Women & Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 1997), Red Trousseau (Viking, 1993), Saving St. Germ (Viking, 1993), Dear Digby (Washington Square Press, 1991)

American Poetry Review, Field, Paris Review, The New Yorker