Malcolm Tariq is a poet, playwright, and social impact and engagement strategist from Savannah, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf, 2019), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. He was a 2016-2017 playwriting apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company and a 2020-2021 resident playwright with Liberation Theatre Company. His academic and creative work has been supported by The Watering Hole, the Social Science Research Council, and Imagining America. He has developed strategic communications and/or directed editorial programs at The Friends School of Atlanta, The Center for Alternative Sentences and Employment Services, and Cave Canem. A graduate of Emory University, Malcolm holds a PhD in English from the University of Michigan, where he was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Malcolm lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is Program Director of Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America.
