About the poet: Dora Malech grew up in Maryland and earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her awards include a Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Clapp Fellowship from Yale, Capote and Teaching-Writing Fellowships from Iowa, a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Malech's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry magazine, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She is the author of Shore Ordered Ocean (2010), Say So(2011), Stet (2018), and Flourish (2020). Malech has taught writing at the University of Iowa; Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand; Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Augustana College; and Saint Mary’s College of California. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University.

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