Talia Bloch’s debut collection, Inheritance, was published by Gold Wake Press in 2018. Her second manuscript has been a finalist for several prizes, including the National Poetry Series Competition, the Ashland Poetry Press Richard Snyder Prize, and the University of Pittsburgh Press Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Recent poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been selected for Best Small Fictions 2020, a Pleiades Editor’s Prize for Emerging Poets, and for Reading the Body: Poetry & Dance on Recovery, a film produced by Bellevue Literary Review and The Paige Fraser Foundation. Her reporting and reviews have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, The City, The Forward, and other outlets. Her work has received support from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, Monson Arts in Maine, and Yetzirah. Raised in the Bronx, NY, she holds a master’s degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and has worked as a reporter, editor, translator, literacy teacher, fellowship administrator, and immigrant-petition-support writer. She currently serves as a poetry reader for Epiphany magazine and teaches community classes on poetry.
