MJ Malleck is a Canadian writer based in Kitchener Ontario, on the Haldimand Tract, land that was granted to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and is within the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. She was raised on the US border and still likes her weather reports in Fahrenheit degrees. She writes short and long prose, flash, creative non-fiction and narrative essays.