Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of the poetry chapbook If It Heals At All (Jacar Press, 2020). The book 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 Atticus Review, jubilat, Literary Hub, The Offing, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching, and sharing art. Her full-length poetry collection, We Look Better Alive is forthcoming from Burnside Review Press in 2025.