Mallory Rader

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.

“The Unliving Louis Jackson and Living Me”, “The Clouds Are Mountains” and “Shackles”

He lived a long life—a normal span of / 9 to 5 and bright eviction notices on front doors. / He would tell his wife every night before bed, / “I will wake up tomorrow and do better.”