Background
She grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Dora Malech
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Malech earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Yale University in 2003 and received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ hop in 2005.
Career
She has since taught writing at the University of Iowa. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Kirkwood Community College.
Augustana College.
And Saint Mary"s College of California. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she coordinates the Iowa Youth Writing Project. 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 published her second collection, Say So, in 2010.
She has received for her poetry includes a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a residency fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy. Her poems have appeared additionally in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies including The New Yorker, Poetry, Best New Poets, Poetry London, and The Yale Review.
