Baude, Dawn-Michelle 1959-

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Baude, Dawn-Michelle 1959-

PERSONAL: Born 1959. Education: New College of California, M.A., 1987; Mills College, M.F.A., 1989; Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne, D.E.A., 1997; University of Illinois-Chicago, Ph.D., 2003.

ADDRESSES: E-mail— info@dawnmichellebaude. com.

CAREER: Poet, writer, educator, and consultant. Université de Paris, France, visiting assistant professor, 1989-93; Bard College Year-Abroad, Lacoste, France, assistant professor, 1998-2001; American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, visiting professor, 1999-2000; American University of Paris, Paris, France, assistant professor, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, adjunct professor, 2004, assistant professor, 2006—. Also communications consultant to private industry, including IBM International, 1999—; freelance journalist for Condé Nast publications, 1992-2000; and guest editor for Van Gogh’s Ear, 2007.

AWARDS, HONORS: Senior Fulbright Award in creative writing, 2005-06.

WRITINGS

The Book of One Hand, Laincourt Press (Paris, France), 1998.

The Beirut Poems, Skanky Possum Editions (Austin, TX), 2001.

reConnaître: Curt Asker (exhibition catalogue), Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France), 2001.

Sunday, Signum Editions (Paris, France), 2002.

Egypt, Post-Apollo Press (Sausalito, CA), 2002.

Through a Membrane/Clouds (e-book), GONG (Port-land, OR), 2006.

The Flying House: Poems 1996-2006, Free Verse/Parlor Press (North Carolina), 2007.

Also author of numerous chapbooks, including The Tropologue, A Week in the Life of the Marines, The Anatolian Tapestry, and Graffiot Exquis. Contributor of poetry reviews and literary criticism to periodicals, including American Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Verse, Rain Taxi, Poetry Flash, and Chicago Review.

SIDELIGHTS: Dawn-Michelle Baude is a widely traveled poet and critic who has lived in France, Egypt, Greece, Belgium, and Lebanon and has also made extended visits to Jordan, Kenya, Uganda, and Zaire. With degrees from Mills College and the Sorbonne, Baude has supported herself by teaching, and she has also undertaken research projects such as her 1993-94 exploration of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. Her poetry reflects this deep engagement with other cultures while also demonstrating “daring flights of. . . poetic imagination,” to quote Nina Zivancevic in an American Book Review piece. Zivancevic also noted that Baude “is real, and she cuts deep as she punctures the slices of reality, here and there, and lets it bleed, after which it can never recover nor be the same, nor can the reader.” A Publishers Weekly contributor commended Egypt for its “gusto” and “musical combinations of language.”