Mallory Rader spends a majority of her time in the fetal position. She is currently working on a Bachelor's of English at Youngstown State University and is not quite sure if the world is real or if we are all Sims characters. She received the 2018 Hare Writing Award for Poetry, the Etruscan Prize for Poetry, and has been published in Fourth and Sycamore, Penguin Review, and Ink and Voices.