Mallory Carra is an award-winning journalist, editor, screenwriter, and teacher based in Los Angeles. She is currently an Associate Content Writer at Spotify’s Parcast Studios, writing and editing scripts for the platform’s top-rated original podcasts, such as Disappearances with Sarah Turney, Serial Killers, and Conspiracy Theories. She is also an adjunct instructor at USC Annenberg’s Media Center, a multi-disciplinary student newsroom producing daily text, radio, and TV stories.

As a journalist and editor, Mallory has over 17 years of experience covering breaking news, entertainment, celebrities, food, lifestyle, e-commerce, real estate, sports, health, and academia. Mallory’s bylines have also appeared in E! News, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, HuffPost, BuzzFeed, the New York Daily News, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many, many others. She began her journalism career in newspapers, working as a staff writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee.

A native of New York City, Mallory has an M.F.A. in screenwriting from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a B.A. in journalism from New York University. Additionally, she earned certificates in business entrepreneurship and marketing at Santa Monica College. In her spare time, Mallory enjoys painting, going on random Wikipedia deep dives, and taking sunset photos.