Malachi Black
Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America\u2019s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA\u2019s New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black\u2019s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review, among other journals, and in a number of anthologies, including Before the Door of God:\xa0 An Anthology of Devotional Poetry (Yale U.P., 2013), Discoveries:\xa0 New Writing from The Iowa Review (Iowa Review, 2012), and The Poet\u2019s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing [U.K.], 2016).\n\nA 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Black has also received fellowships and awards from the Amy Clampitt House, the Bread Loaf Writers\u2019 Conference, Emory University, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Hawthornden Castle, the MacDowell Colony, the Poetry Foundation (a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship), the Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, and Yaddo. Black\u2019s work has been featured in exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad, including several musical settings and translations into French, Dutch, Italian, Croatian, and Lithuanian. Black is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.