Mallary Tenore is an assistant professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Journalism and Media and the McCombs School of Business. She’s the author of "Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery," which explores the under-discussed complexities of eating disorders and recovery from them. The book will be published by Simon & Schuster, via its Simon Element imprint, in August 2025. While writing the book, Mallary received a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her science-related reporting for Slip.

Previously, Mallary was the associate director of UT Austin’s Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, an international training and outreach center for journalists. Mallary oversaw the Center’s pioneering distance learning program, which has reached more than 300,000 people from 200 countries and territories. She also co-organized the Knight Center’s International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), which convenes journalists and media executives from around the world. Prior to UT Austin, Mallary was executive director the nonprofit Images & Voices of Hope (ivoh), where she developed a storytelling genre called Restorative Narrative — stories that show how people and communities are finding meaningful pathways forward in the aftermath of trauma. Mallary started her career at The Poynter Institute, a world-renowned journalism think tank. As managing editor of the Institute’s website, she wrote and edited stories about the media industry and interviewed hundreds of journalists and authors.

Mallary’s stories have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Tampa Bay Times, Harvard University's Nieman Storyboard, and more. Mallary holds bachelor’s degrees from Providence College and a master’s of fine arts in nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She lives in the Austin area with her husband and two young children.