Dora Malech

Dora Malech
Born (1981-09-04) September 4, 1981
New Haven
Citizenship American
Alma mater Yale University;
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Genre Poetry
Website
doramalech.com

Dora Malech (born September 4, 1981 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American poet.

Life

She grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. Malech 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; Augustana College; and Saint Mary's College of California.

She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she coordinates the Iowa Youth Writing Project.[2]

Career

Malech’s first full-length collection of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, was published in 2009 by the Waywiser Press.[3] The Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2010.[4]

She has received for her poetry includes a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship[5] from the Poetry Foundation and a residency fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy.

Her poems have appeared additionally in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry, Best New Poets, Poetry London, and The Yale Review.

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dora-malech
  2. ↑ http://doramalech.com/about/
  3. ↑ http://waywiser-press.com/poetry.html#malech/
  4. ↑ http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Malech.html
  5. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes_fellowship

External links

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