Dora Malech
{{short description|American poet (born 1981)}}
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University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
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Dora Malech (born September 4, 1981) is an American poet.
Life
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dora-malech|title=Dora Malech|date=2016-12-30|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2016-12-30}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.doramalech.net/about.html|title=About|website=Dora Malech|access-date=2016-12-30}}
She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is the editor in chief of The Hopkins Review and an associate professor in The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.{{Cite web|url=http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/directory/dora-malech/|title=Dora Malech {{!}} The Writing Seminars {{!}} Johns Hopkins University|website=writingseminars.jhu.edu|date=7 May 2014 |access-date=2016-12-30}}
Career
Malech’s first full-length collection of poetry, Shore Ordered Ocean, was published in 2009 by The Waywiser Press.{{Cite web|url=https://waywiser-press.com/product/shore-ordered-ocean/|title=Shore Ordered Ocean – The Waywiser Press|website=waywiser-press.com|access-date=2016-12-30}}
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/say-so|title=Say So|website=Cleveland State University Poetry Center|access-date=2016-12-30}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.civitella.org/fellows/fellow/dora-malech|title=Dora Malech - Fellows - Civitella Ranieri|last=exhibit-e.com|website=www.civitella.org|access-date=2016-12-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes_fellowship|title=Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships|date=2016-12-30|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2016-12-30}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.amyclampitt.org/residency/|title=The Amy Clampitt Fund|website=www.amyclampitt.org|access-date=2016-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231075013/http://www.amyclampitt.org/residency/|archive-date=2016-12-31|url-status=dead}}
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.
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.
She collaborated with composer Jacob Cooper on a track for his debut album Silver Threads (Nonesuch Records, 2014).{{Cite web|url=http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/silver-threads|title=Nonesuch Records Silver Threads|website=Nonesuch Records Official Website|access-date=2016-12-30}}
Bibliography
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=Collections=
- {{cite book |title=Inside & Elsewhere |publisher=Argonne Hotel Press |year=1999 |isbn=9781887641265|location=Washington, DC |type=Chapbook|author=Malech, Dora |author-link= }}{{Cite book|title=Inside & Elsewhere|last=Malech|first=Dora|date=1999-04-09|publisher=Argonne Hotel Press|isbn=9781887641265|location=Washington, D.C.}}
- Malech, Dora (2009). Shore Ordered Ocean. Waywiser Press. {{ISBN|9781904130390}}{{Cite book|title=Shore Ordered Ocean|last=Malech|first=Dora|publisher=Waywiser Press|year=2010|isbn=9781904130390}}
- Malech, Dora (2010). Say So. Cleveland State University Poetry Center. {{ISBN|9781880834923}}{{Cite book|title=Say So|last=Malech|first=Dora|date=2010-11-29|publisher=Cleveland State University Poetry Center|isbn=9781880834923|edition=First|location=Cleveland|language=en}}
= List of poems =
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!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |
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| To the you of ten years ago, now
|2013 |{{cite magazine |author=Malech, Dora |date=May 6, 2013 |title=To the you of ten years ago, now |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=12 |pages=36 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/06/to-the-you-of-ten-years-ago-now }} | |
References
External links
- [http://www.doramalech.net Dora Malech’s Personal Website]
- [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dora-malech Malech's Profile on The Academy of American Poets Website]
- [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dora-malech Malech’s Profile on The Poetry Foundation Website]
- [http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/say-so Malech’s Profile on The Cleveland State University Poetry Center Website]
- [https://waywiser-press.com/product/shore-ordered-ocean/ Malech's Profile on The Waywiser Press Website]
- [http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw110721dora_malech_say_so Malech’s Radio Interview on KCRW’s BookWorm]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110428002236/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/04/weekly-poem-love-poem.html Malech Featured on PBS NewsHour’s Art Beat]
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