Mallory is the Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group where she’s had the pleasure of working on Mike Curato’s graphic novel, Flamer, Katy Rose Pool’s Age of Darkness series, and Karamo Brown’s I Am Perfectly Designed.   She’s also worked on a number of NYTimes bestsellers, including Natalie Portman’s Fables and Emmanuel Acho’s Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy.  Previously, Mallory has worked at Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HMH, Alloy Entertainment, and Cider Mill Press, and has lectured at SCBWI, CBIG, the Highlights Foundation, and universities across the country. A sixth-generation Texan who’s forsaken the motherland to live in Brooklyn, NY, she loves making art, cooking, boxing, writing, yoga, and playing fetch with her rescue pup, Birdie. Mallory uses she/her/hers pronouns.