Dora Malech Sr. Advisor to the Provost for the Arts

Dora Malech is the Senior Advisor to the Provost for the Arts and leads the Office of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University. She is the Elliott Coleman Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she serves as department chair and editor in chief of The Hopkins Review.

An award-winning poet, editor, and translator, she is the author of five books of poetry, Trying × Trying (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), Flourish ​(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020), Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (The Waywiser Press, 2009). Eris Press (Urtext Ltd) published Soundings, a selection of poems from Malech’s first three books and a selection of her visual artwork, in 2019. Tupelo Press commissioned her chapbook Time Trying and published it as a folio in Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic ​in 2020. With Laura T. Smith, she edited The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, published by the University of Iowa Press in 2023. With Gabriella Fee, she translated Italian poet Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s debut collection, Dolore Minimo, which won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and was published by Saturnalia Books in 2022. Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry, The Best American Poetry, and Poetry London.

Her honors include an Amy Clampitt Residency Award from the Amy Clampitt Fund, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, participation in the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome, a Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, a Crenson-Hertz Award for Community Based Learning ​from the JHU Center for Social Concern, a JHU Krieger School Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award for early career faculty, and a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for cross-divisional teams. As editor in chief of The Hopkins Review, she initiated and implemented a 15th anniversary redesign that won the journal a Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial and Design Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.