Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and McCombs School of Business. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, and Teen Vogue, among other publications. She is the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, which helped support her research and writing. Mallary graduated from Providence College and has a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. Slip is her first book.

"The book is far more than a traditional recovery memoir – it challenges our either-or understanding of illness and wellness.....Blending memoir with investigative reporting gives the book unusual depth and authority....The book’s most important contribution is naming a phenomenon many survivors know intimately: the middle place, a space between sickness and full recovery where slips are accepted as part of the process.....Tarpley’s courage in rejecting the tidy recovery narrative in favor of messy, honest truth-telling makes SLIP an enlightening read." –The Austin Chronicle

Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and McCombs School of Business. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time, and Teen Vogue, among other publications. She is the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, which helped support her research and writing. Mallary graduated from Providence College and has a Master of Fine Arts in nonfiction writing from Goucher College. She lives outside of Austin, Texas, with her husband and two children. Slip is her first book.

"The book is far more than a traditional recovery memoir – it challenges our either-or understanding of illness and wellness.....Blending memoir with investigative reporting gives the book unusual depth and authority....The book’s most important contribution is naming a phenomenon many survivors know intimately: the middle place, a space between sickness and full recovery where slips are accepted as part of the process.....Tarpley’s courage in rejecting the tidy recovery narrative in favor of messy, honest truth-telling makes SLIP an enlightening read." –The Austin Chronicle