Dora Malech

Dora Malech is the author of Flourish (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Shore Ordered Ocean (The Waywiser Press, 2009). Flourish was a 2020 Longlist Finalist for the Julie Suk Award, and Shore Ordered Ocean was a 2010 Longlist Finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Eris Press (Urtext Ltd) published Soundings, a selection of poems from Malech's first three books and a selection of her visual artwork, in 2019, and Tupelo Press published her chapbook Time Trying in Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic ​in 2020. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. (See below for a more complete list.) With Laura T. Smith, she is currently co-editing a collection of American sonnets and essays on the American sonnet tradition, under contract with the University of Iowa Press. As a lyricist, her collaborations with composer Jacob Cooper have been featured on the album Silver Threads (Nonesuch Records, 2014) and Terrain (New Amsterdam Records, 2020). She also wrote the libretto for Cooper and director Karmina Silec's opera THRENOS: for the throat, which won an international 2021 Music Theatre NOW (MTNow) Award. Her co-translations (with Gabriella Fee) of the Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto have appeared in The Offing and the Journal of Italian Translation​.