Dara Barrois/Dixon

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Dara Barrois/Dixon (Dara Wier) (born December 30, 1949)^[1] is an American poet and author. She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, The Poetry Center Book Award, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council.^{[citation needed]} She has been poet-in-residence at the University of Montana, University of Texas Austin, Emory University, and the University of Utah; she was the 2005 Louis Rubin chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives and works in Factory Hollow in Western Massachusetts.^[1] Emily Pettit and Guy Gerard Pettit are her daughter and son.