BIOGRAPHY

Marie-Elizabeth Mali was born and raised in New York City, with frequent trips to Venezuela and Sweden where most of her family lives. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego in 1998 with a Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine degree. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College in 1989 with a B.A. in East Asian Studies.

Marie-Elizabeth is a co-curator for louderARTS: the Reading Series, which takes place on Mondays at Bar 13 in New York City. The louderARTS Project is dedicated to uniting the various worlds of poetry (writing and performing, traditionalist structure and slam form, study and action, personal and political, solitary and collaborative, genre-specific and genre-bending), in a way that is both altruistic and personally and artistically evolutionary. For more information and calendar: louderARTS

Marie-Elizabeth is also a co-curator for Page Meets Stage, a reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club created by her husband, renowned performance poet, Taylor Mali. This monthly series brings together a poet more known for work on the page with a poet more known for work on the stage to read back and forth, poem for poem. Co-produced by Words Worth Ink and Blue Flower Arts, the readings benefit Bowery Arts and Science, the educational wing of the Bowery Poetry Club. For more information and calendar: Page Meets Stage

Marie-Elizabeth is a poetry editor at TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. TIFERET's mission is to promote peace in you as an individual and in our world. Our poetry and prose are dedicated to bringing you closer to spirit and higher consciousness through the written word. Tiferet is a Hebrew word meaning reconciliation of opposites, the heart, compassion, truth. On the Tree of Life, it is where the material and spiritual worlds meet. TIFERET the magazine is a multi-faith publication, presenting a variety of religious traditions as different paths up the same mountain. For more information: TIFERET

She has immense gratitude for all the teachers, in every aspect of her life, who have been so generous with their teaching and loving support.