Dora Malech | |
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Born | New Haven, Connecticut, US | September 4, 1981
Alma mater | Yale University; University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop |
Genre | Poetry |
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Dora Malech (born September 4, 1981) is an American poet.
Malech grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University in 2003, and received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2005. [1] She has since taught writing at the University of Iowa; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Kirkwood Community College; and Augustana College. She has served as Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary's College of California, and she is a co-founder and former director of the arts engagement organization the Iowa Youth Writing Project. [2]
She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review and a professor in The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. [3]
Malech’s first full-length collection of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, was published in 2009 by The Waywiser Press. [4] The Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2010. [5]
The awards she has received for her poetry include a 2009 residency fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, a 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 2017 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. [6] [7] [8]
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series and Imagine Our Parks with Poems Series, Barn Owl Review , Barrow Street , Best New Zealand Poems, Chelsea , Denver Quarterly, Gargoyle Magazine, Gulf Coast, The Hopkins Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Morning News, New Orleans Review, The New Yorker , Painted Bride Quarterly , Poet Lore , Poetry , Poetry London , Sonora Review , Sport , Tin House, Versal, and The Yale Review. [2]
Her poems were selected by Natasha Trethewey for Best New Poets 2007, Mark Strand for No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine, and Sherman Alexie for The Best American Poetry 2015. [2]
She collaborated with composer Jacob Cooper on a track for his debut album Silver Threads (Nonesuch Records, 2014). [9]
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Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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To the you of ten years ago, now | 2013 | Malech, Dora (May 6, 2013). "To the you of ten years ago, now". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 12. p. 36. | |