Joanne Mallari

Joanne Mallari, MFA

Teaching Associate Professor; Associate Director of Core Writing, Core Writing Program she, her, hers

Summary

Joanne Mallari teaches writing and related courses in the Department of English.

She is the author of Daughter Tongue, a chapbook that explores hybrids of identity from the perspective of a second-generation Filipino-American. Her poetry has been published in journals including Crab Orchard Review, Palimpsest and Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, which nominated her work for a Pushcart Prize.

Born in southern California and raised in Las Vegas, she has called Reno home since 2008.

Publications

  • Daughter Tongue (poetry chapbook), Kelsay Books, 2020

Education

  • MFA, creative writing (poetry), University of Nevada, Reno, 2018
  • B.A., Spanish, University of Nevada, Reno, 2015
  • B.A., English (writing), University of Nevada, Reno, 2011