“Puzzling Toward Oblivion” named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023.
Selected work
Fiction, essays and poems in print and online, 2019 – now.
About
Chicago-born. Skokie-based.
Ken Malatesta is a teacher and writer from Chicago. He lives in Skokie, Illinois with his wife and three sons, and has taught English at Springman Middle School since 2008.
His essay “Puzzling Toward Oblivion” was named a Notable Essay of the Year in The Best American Essays 2023. He studied English at the University of Iowa and holds an M.A.T. from National Louis University.
Work has appeared in
Chicago Quarterly Review · Bridge Eight · Sky Island Journal · Oddball Magazine · The Hopper · Fatherly · Matter Press · Goat’s Milk Magazine · Motherwell · The Compressed Journal for Creative Arts