Malaika King Albrecht
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Malaika King Albrecht is the author of three poetry books. Her most
recent book What the Trapeze Artist Trusts is now available at Press
53. Her chapbook Lessons in Forgetting was published by Main Street Rag
and was a finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and
received honorable mention in the Brockman Campbell Award. Her second
book Spill was also published by Main Street Rag in 2011. Her poems
have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies and
nominated for Pushcarts. Her poems have won awards in several contests,
including at Poetry Southeast, the North Carolina Poetry Council, Salem
College and Press 53. She's the founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild,
an online magazine that only accepts poems that have been rejected
elsewhere. She lives in Pinehurst, N.C. with her family and is a
therapeutic riding instructor.