Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of the poetry collection We Look Better Alive (Burnside Review Press, 2025) and the chapbook If It Heals At All (Jacar Press, 2020). We Look Better Alive was nominated for a 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry and was a finalist for both the Ohioana Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. Selected by Jaki Shelton Green for the New Voices Series, If It Heals At All was also a finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Ali is the recipient of the 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize in the Emerging Artist category. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atticus Review, jubilat, Literary Hub, The Offing, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.