Mallory Tater (she/her) is the author of two books—This Will Be Good (Book*Hug Press 2018) and The Birth Yard: A Novel (HarperCollins Ca).

She lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. 

She was the recipient of Contemporary Verse 2’s 2016 Foster Poetry Prize.

She is the publisher of Rahila’s Ghost Press, a recently retired poetry chapbook press. 

She is currently a lecturer at The UBC School of Creative Writing and working on a novel about the dark underbelly of reality television and competitive dance culture.