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.
Heed the Hollow
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Georgia Author of the Year Award
“There are many places in this book where problematic and uncomfortable conflations are made between the erotics of sex and race and the beatings and the other violences of slavery and state-sanctioned actions. This love here, this Eros, covers the full gamut of expression and exploration, and while not fully covered (because what single book could?), it marks the possibility of a new set of terms to expand on the already beautifully complicated aesthetics of the grotesque (think Mikhail Bakhtin and Morrison) at play within American history. This is where we find Malcolm Tariq’s work, on the cusp of a new South, a new Black, a new self-love, a new history.”
Consultancy
Editorial ~ Communications ~ Project Management
With over a decade of experience in education, writing and publishing, and the social impact sector, Malcolm Tariq brings a personalized approach to collaborating with individuals and organizations on goals-driven projects of all sizes. He provides support developing editorial projects, internal and external communications strategies, membership and donor cultivation initiatives, and other special initiatives.