Author: Ally Malinenko

I live in Brooklyn which is good except when it’s not which is horrid. I’ve been writing for awhile, and have some stuff published and some stuff not.

I don’t like when people refer to pets as their children and I can’t resist a handful of cheez-its when offered.

I have a burning desire to go to Antarctica, specifically to the South Pole so I can see where Robert Falcon Scott died.

I like to read books. I like to write stories and poems. I even wrote some novels. You can read them.

Poem – Savagery

  Savagery   While I understand it is a savagery that overtime will be abated though not extinguished and that it grows from intuition and not understanding I still find it terrifyingly poignant to watch a shrieking toddler chase a pigeon with such ferocious determination   as if were he able he would catch each… Continue reading Poem – Savagery

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The title is an Einstein quote. Put on your smarty glasses kids. We’re gonna talk about Research. One of my favorite parts about writing a book is doing the research. When I was writing Lizzy I spent hours looking up mythological creatures and Shakespeare in the library. I used books like Barthe’s and the Encyclopedia… Continue reading If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Nine Years Later

Anniversary “I’ll wait for you. And should I fall behind wait for me” -Bruce Springsteen We clink glasses, exhausted from another late night in a long week and I tell you that 9 years ago tomorrow we were in New Orleans me feeling sick from the heat but soon sicker from eating year old cake.… Continue reading Nine Years Later