Photograph by Caroline Earp
Talia Bloch’s debut collection, Inheritance, was published by Gold Wake Press. Her second manuscript was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series Competition and shortlisted for several other press prizes. Recent poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Worcester Review, and elsewhere. Her work was selected for Best Small Fictions 2020, an Editor’s Prize for Emerging Poets from Pleiades magazine, and a 2023 film of poetry, music, and dance titled “Reading the Body,” produced by Bellevue Literary Review and shown internationally. Talia’s reporting and reviews have been published in Aufbau, 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 now lives in Brooklyn. She has worked as a reporter, editor, translator, literacy teacher, fellowship administrator, and immigrant-petition support writer.