Malachi Black

Malachi Black is the author of Indirect Light (Four Way Books, 2024) and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Series, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky. His poetry has also been featured in several anthologies, including In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2023).

Black is the recipient of both a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He has also received fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Emory University, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Hawthornden, MacDowell, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Yaddo.

Black teaches at the University of San Diego and lives in California.