Career Plans: Teaching higher level English and writing the next Great American Novel.

Favorite Color: green and pink

Favorite Number: 47… that goes back so far I don’t even remember its significance.

Favorite Book/Author and why: I love William Faulkner and Dave Eggers.  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham. These books feel real, but at the same time they don’t. Does that make sense?

Favorite Movie: The Boondock Saints, The Virgin Suicides, The Dreamers, The Graduate.

Favorite Music: Ani DiFranco, Guster, Dispatch, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens… um, just drop me at any concert and I’ll probably love it.

Favorite chewing gum: Dark pink Extra. Hardcore.

Favorite Place to Study: The floor of my apartment? I’m not sure how sanitary that is…

Favorite Atlanta Restaurant: The Cheesecake Factory. Top Spice.

Most Frequent Grammatical Error: Commas. I use them excessively.

Biggest Grammatical Pet Peeve: Run-on sentences. 

Languages other than English: Some rusty French.

Mallory on Writing: Writing is the best thing that ever happened to us. Writing is why I get up in the morning. Writing is expression and writing is human.