Dear Digby has been re-issued by Figueroa Press in 2003. Her forth novel Channeling Mark Twain from Random House is in stores now.

Carol's collection of essays entitled Married to the Icepick Killer, A Poet in Hollywood was published in August of 2002. Her collection of reviews and critical essays, Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography and the Shape of the Self was published in the "Poets on Poetry" series of the University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Both collections have been "New York Times Most Notable Books" or listed in the current year's "Best Books".

She is a regular critic for the New York Times Book Review and the LA Times Book Review. Her work appears everywhere from the New Yorker to L.A. Magazine and she is anthologized widely, including in Best American Poems, 100 Great Poems by Women and many others.

She is professor of English and Creative Writing and founding Director of the new PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

She has received many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Ingram-Merrill, the Witter Bynner award from the Library of Congress, the Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America and several Pushcart Prizes.

On November 13, 2008, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Carol as California's poet laureate.

Annie Muske-Dukes, after graduating from USC in May of 2005, will re-locate to Boulder, Colorado, where she will be pursuing a PhD in molecular biology at the Institute for Cellular, Developmental, Molecular Biology at the Univ. of Colorado.

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Married to the Icepick Killer: a Poet in Hollywood (a collection of essays reprinted from the NY Times and LA Times book reviews and Op Ed pages as well as unpublished work) was published in 2002 by Random House and selected as a Best Book of the year by the SF Chronicle.

Sparrow, a collection of elegies for David, was published in 2003 by Random House and chosen as a National Book Award finalist in Poetry. The book also won the Yale Review's Smart Award, plus the Chapin award from Columbia University. Sparrow paperback came out from Random House in 2004.