LaRue, Dorie - College Faculty - College of Liberal Arts - Louisiana State University in Shreveport

LaRue, Dorie (1989)
Professor of English and Writer in Residence
Department:	English
Office:	BH 227
Phone:	(318) 797-5248
E-mail:	dlarue@lsus.edu
Vita:	Click here to view Vita

Dorie LaRue was educated at Louisiana Tech University and the University of Southwestern Louisiana, where, in 1986, she obtained her Ph.D. in Creative Writing and American literature while studying with Ernest J. Gaines. She has taught world literature and composition at Grambling State University; and creative writing, composition, and American Literature at LSU in Baton Rouge. At present she teaches creative writing and composition at LSU in Shreveport, where she recently conducted an LEH Summer Institute in autobiography. In 1993, she won the Outstanding Faculty Member in Teaching award.

She has attended the Breadloaf Writers' Conference (1992) where she studied with Linda Pastan and Camille Hykes, and in August, 1993, she attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers' Conference, where she studied with Ed Barber, Mark Childress, and Al Young. She has published short stories, poetry, book reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles in such journals as the Southern Review, the American Poetry Review, the Massachusetts Review, the Kentucky Poetry Review, the Maryland Poetry Review, the Southern Quarterly, Manoa, the Chattahouchee Review. She has two books of poetry in print: The Private Frenzy, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1992, and Seeking The Monsters, published by the New Spirit Press, Kew Gardens, N.Y. in 1993. In 2001, her first novel, Resurrecting Virgil, was published, which won the Omaha Prize for Fiction.

Dorie has received four grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and recently was awarded the Shreveport Regional Arts Council Fellowship. She has also been awarded a Division of the Arts mini-grant, as well as a Division of the Arts fellowship for her unpublished poetry manuscript entitled,Nearest of Kin.