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About M.L. Malcolm
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M.L. Malcolm |
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Although born in New York, M.L. Malcolm
spent most of her childhood in Florida, both in a small
town on the Gulf Coast, and in the state capital of
Tallahassee. Her education gradually brought her back
north, as she earned a B.A. and an M.A. in political
science from Emory University in Atlanta, and a J.D.
from Harvard Law School in Boston. Between college and
law school she spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, France
as a Rotary Foundation Fellow. She developed a strong
interest in World War I while touring the battlefields
in Northern France, and used that time period as part
of the setting for Silent Lies.
M.L. Malcolm began her professional
career as an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. However,
after practicing law for three years, she determined
that "she and the law were not meant for each other,"
and is now a self-described "recovering attorney."
As part of her recovery strategy,
M.L. yielded to her entrepreneurial inclinations and
took over a struggling travel agency in which she and
her husband had invested. She ran the business successfully
for several years before selling it to a larger company,
then retired from the labor force in order to spend
more time with her children, and to pursue her life-long
ambition to become a writer. She has won several awards
for short fiction, including special recognition in
the prestigious Lorian Hemingway International Short
Story Competition.
While living in Atlanta, M.L. served
on the board of the Harvard Alumni Association, the
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, and worked as
a fundraiser for several nonprofit organizations. She
also amassed an impressive hat collection (and yes,
she does wear them).
After fifteen years in Atlanta, the
Malcolm family moved to Washington, D.C. in late August
of 2001, where M.L. returned to the work force. She
graduated from the National Journalism Center, and worked
as a reporter for The Common Denominator, an independent
newspaper in the nation's capital.
M.L. now lives with her husband, two
children and two dogs in Los Angeles, where, in addition
to writing fiction, she works as a free-lance journalist,
and as an internet blogger for the web show, "quarterlife".
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