Addy Malinowski is a poet, musician, and educator from the Detroit area currently living in Brooklyn, NY. They are a PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and hold an MA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. Addy teaches writing at Brooklyn College. Their first full-length poetry collection From a Halogen Sea was published in 2023. The poem "After Love" from the collection was selected as a Best of the Net finalist for 2020. Their current interests include the music and life of Arthur Russell, mid-century American poetics and poetries of resistance, and what their dog is doing at any given moment. They can be found online at addymalinowski.net. They have not read at the NOLA Poetry Festival before and would be thrilled to do so.