About

M. G. MALONEY (she/her) is a MLIS librarian, who currently works as a Teen Librarian at a a public library in Southern California. Previously, M. G. was a Faculty Librarian at College of the Desert, Adjunct Faculty Librarian in Nealley Library in Santa Ana College and Adjunct Faculty Librarian in the Lorenzo A. Ramirez Library at Santiago Canyon College. For over seven years, M. G. worked as the Assistant Director at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies (University of Redlands), an experimental and self-directed bachelor’s degree program inspired by John Dewey and Black Mountain College.  Her work in the Johnston Center included designing and teaching courses, archiving the Center’s 50-year history, producing events and performing the role of unofficial in-house librarian. Some of the courses M. G. created and taught included Riot GRRRL: Music & Zines, DIY Art Projects, Community Organizing and more.  Additionally, M. G. took on the role as project manager and archival curator of Snapshot/50: The Johnston Community 1969-2019 (Ebhon Press, 2019), a collection of essays, art, and archives celebrating the Center’s 50th anniversary in 2019. You can read some of M. G.’s editorial work in the The Coz McNooz, a quarterly newsletter she edited in 2020-2021, for the Johnston Center’s alumni. With a love for facilitating intergenerational connections, she also co-produced a visiting alumni lecture series for students featuring prestigious alumni in the arts, such as the 2023 National Book Award winner for poetry, Craig Santos Garcia, and award-winning poets Ángel García and Ely Shipley; filmmakers: Monet Malek, Erik Saltzman, Taylor O. Miller, Gianni-Amber North, Jessie Kahnweiler, and many more.

As a researcher, M. G. freelanced for author Leslie Brody, Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy (Seal Press, 2020).

While pursuing her master’s in library and information science at Dominican University in suburban Chicago, M. G. gained a prestigious children’s literature internship at The Newberry; earned the graduate assistant position in the Butler Children’s Literature Center; coordinated and facilitated children’s programs at Oak Park Public Library where she was also selected to be a pre-K story time intern.

Before she caught the librarian bug, M. G. first studied, wrote, and performed comedy in Los Angeles., 2001-2007. A graduate of Second City‘s writing program and Intern at the Upright Citizens Brigade, M. G. also studied television writing with the late Michael C. McCarthy in his Comedy Lab. Her comedy writing was last featured in “The Super Sabado Show” (2017) a benefit for a children’s arts program in Puerto Rico, produced by HERO Theatre and staged at The Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts in downtown L.A.