Dora Malech (born September 4, 1981) is an American poet.

Life

Malech grew up in

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, earned a BA in Fine Arts from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2003, and received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2005. She has since taught writing at the

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; and Augustana College. She has served as Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at

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, and she is a co-founder and former director of the arts engagement organization the Iowa Youth Writing Project. She lives in

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, where she is an assistant professor in The

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in the

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Career

Malech’s first full-length collection of poetry, ''Shore Ordered Ocean'', was published in 2009 by The Waywiser Press. The

Cleveland State University Poetry Center The Cleveland State University Poetry Center is a literary small press and poetry outreach organization in Cleveland, Ohio, operated under the auspices of the English Department at Cleveland State University. It publishes original works of poetry b ...

published her second collection, '' Say So'', in 2010. The awards she has received for her poetry include a 2009 residency fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, a 2010

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Poetry Fellowship from the

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, and a 2017

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Residency Award. 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

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Poem-a-Day Series and Imagine Our Parks with Poems Series, '' Barn Owl Review'', '' Barrow Street'', ''Best New Zealand Poems'', ''

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, Gargoyle Magazine,

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, The Morning News,

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.'' Her poems were selected by

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2007'',

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for ''No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine'', and

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2015.'' She collaborated with composer

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on a track for his debut album ''Silver Threads'' (

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, 2014).

Bibliography

Collections

* *Malech, Dora (2009). ''Shore Ordered Ocean.'' Waywiser Press. *Malech, Dora (2010). ''Say So.'' Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

List of poems

References

External links

Dora Malech’s Personal Website

Malech's Profile on The Academy of American Poets Website

Malech’s Profile on The Poetry Foundation Website

Malech’s Profile on The Cleveland State University Poetry Center Website

Malech's Profile on The Waywiser Press Website

Malech’s Radio Interview on KCRW’s BookWorm

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