Mallory Bautsch is an up-and-coming author of Young Adult Fantasy. She was born in southeast Texas, where she grew up reading books way past bedtime, enacting sword fights with sticks in the backyard, and imagining worlds of magic. Mallory currently attends Texas A&M University as a Marketing major, and loves taking long walks with her twin sister, making new friends, and serving at church. She adores her parents, siblings, and nephew, as well as her golden doodle, Jolie.