Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals At All (Jacar Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award. Her writing has appeared in The Offing, jubilat, LiteraryHub, Muzzle Magazine, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching, and sharing art.
Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and If It Heals At All (Jacar Press, 2020), which was selected by Jaki Shelton Green for the New Voices Series and named a finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in poetry. Her writing has appeared in The Offing, jubilat, LiteraryHub, Muzzle Magazine, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching, and sharing art. [Photo: Donald Black Jr.]