Malachi Black (USA, 1982) is the author of the poetry collections Indirect Light (Four Way Books, 2024) and Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), the latter a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky). Black’s 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 (Yale U.P., 2013), The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing [U.K.], 2016), and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence, 2023). Black’s poems have several times been set to music and have been featured in a variety of exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad, including recent and forthcoming translations into French, Dutch, Italian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Lithuanian. Black is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.