Dora Malech was born in 1981, grew up in Maryland, earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale in 2003, and earned an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. Her awards include a Clapp Fellowship from Yale, Capote and Teaching-Writing Fellowships from Iowa, a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship, and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry London, and elsewhere. She is the author of Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser, 2010), and Say So (CSUPC, forthcoming). This Fall, she’s Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California.