Mel Mallory (she/her) is a writer and poet. She is mainly interested in stories that explore disability and mental distress from an empowering, non-pathologizing perspective. She is the author of three hi-lo young adult verse novels: Survive and Keep Surviving (April 2022), The Best Part is at The End (June 2023), and Letters From Bed World (August 2023), which can be found here. Her writing has also been featured in Asylum magazine and The Squeaky Wheel.