Norman Mallory was born in Oregon in 1945 and has lived in Washington, Alaska, Nevada and California. He taught various subjects in the Humanities, Music, Language Arts and Art History in colleges and universities in the US for thirty years, retiring in 2000.

His drawings, poems and prose have appeared in five countries and been translated into four languages. He has published poetry and prose in more than one hundred journals, anthologies and magazines, illustrated the covers of paperback books and worked as a commercial artist, journalist and writer.

His publications include: New Writers of Canada and America; Best New Poems of Canada and the US; The Malahat Review (selected by Robin Skelton); The Antigonish Review;Contemporary Literature in Translation; Back in Town (an anthology); The Mediterranean Review ( selected by Robert Graves); Margin (London); Psmje (Zagreb) and Impulse (Berlin). Four collections of his verse appeared between 1972 and 1998.

In 2003-4, he collaborated on several works with Patrick Warner. Their book, "Eyes of India" ( poems and drawings), will appear in 2005 from Futharc Press.

His work currently appears on various Internet Web sites as well as in several galleries and print publications.