You can order Body of a Dancer directly from Etruscan Press, here.

And you can order an eBook (for Kindle) and there may be secondhand copies (via indie bookstores) from Amazon, here.

There is also an eBook available

Renée E. D’Aoust’s memoir-in-essays is Body of Dancer (Etruscan Press). She has numerous publications and awards to her credit, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Journalism Institute for Dance Criticism at American Dance Festival, support from the Puffin Foundation, and grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Awards include AWP’s “Intro to Journals” project (cnf), Permafrost’s “Midnight Sun Award” (fiction), and Food for Thought’s “Julie Harris Award for Emerging Playwrights.” Six essays have been named “Notable Essays” in the Best American Essays series, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. D’Aoust’s conference presentations include &NOW in Paris, France, two panels at AWP/Seattle, two panels at AWP/Minneapolis, two panels at NonfictioNOW/Arizona, and a panel forthcoming at AWP/Los Angeles.

Anthology publications include the following:

Reading Dance (Pantheon), edited by Robert Gottlieb; On Stage Alone (University Press of Florida), edited by Claudia Gitelman and Barbara Palfy; Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People (Ontario Veterinary College/University of Guelph), edited by Hilde Weisert and Elizabeth Arnold Stone; Naturally Yours: Poems and Prose About Indiana State Parks and Reservoirs, edited by Kathy Gerstorff and Stacy Savage (CreateSpace); the forthcoming The Americas Anthology of New Writing: From Patagonia to Nunavut (Texas Tech University Press), edited by Peter Grandbois; and the forthcoming Why I Write, edited by Jane Carmen (Festival Writer Press).

Creative nonfiction, journalism, book and dance reviews, and poetry have been published (or are forthcoming) in the following venues, and elsewhere:

Amoskeag: The Journal of Southern New Hampshire University, Apollo’s Lyre, Ballet-Dance Magazine, Ballet Review, The Bathyspheric Review, The Bend, Black Canyon Quarterly, Brevity, Brooklyn Rail, Cadillac Cicatrix, Canoe & Kayak Magazine, Cavalier Literary Couture, The Collagist, Culture Vulture, Dance Insider, Drunken Boat, Essay Daily, Explore Dance, Festival Writer, Fourth Genre, Harpur Palate, Hippocampus Magazine, HTMLGiant, Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly Magazine, Kalliope, Keyhole, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mid-American Review, North Central Review, Northern Journeys, Notre Dame Review, Open Face Sandwich, Origami Condom, The Owl, Penguin Review, Permafrost, Ragazine, Rain Taxi, Redwood Coast Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rhino, The Rumpus, The Spokesman-Review, Squid Quarterly, Sweet: A Literary Confection, 13th Moon, Touchstone Literary Magazine, Trestle Creek Review, TriQuarterly Review, The Turnip Trucks, Under the Sun, The Volta, and Wordriver.

From 2009-2022, D’Aoust volunteered as an Idaho Master Forest Steward, which included editing and writing for Women Owning Woodlands. D’Aoust has twice served as a “Writer to Writer” mentor for AWP. From 2016-18, she was the Managing Editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, including curating and editing the “In the Classroom” series.

D’Aoust teaches online at North Idaho College and Casper College, and holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Columbia University. She loves to hike with her husband and miniature dachshund Tootsie.

Dachshund Tootsie’s motto:

Wag. Wag again. Wag better.

D’Aoust is available for readings, to Skype with courses, and to teach workshops. She would love to meet you virtually and/or in person.