Draft:Whitney Mallett

Whitney Mallett is a writer and editor. In 2022, she founded the in-print literary magazine, The Whitney Review of New Writing.  Mallett is the co-editor at PIN-UP x Mattel's Barbie Dreamhouse An Architectural Survey Limited Run Edition (2022) as a leading historian of the Barbie Universe. She has served as an editor at publications such as Editorial, PIN-UP, and Gayletter, and authored her first novel, Deliverance in 2023.

Work
Mallett has published fiction, nonfiction, and interviews in numerous publications including Artforum, Culture, Interview, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times, PIN-UP, SSENSE, Vice, Vulture, and more.

A limited-edition art book, Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey, was published by PIN-UP and Mattel in late 2022 to honor the dreamhouses 60-year milestone. The 151-page monograph follows Barbie's Dreamhouses through six iterations as well as original furnishings and architectural blueprints and is co-authored by Mallett, editor Felix Burrichter, and designer Ben Ganz.

In 2023, Mallett founded biannual The Whitney Review of New Writing and serves as its editor-in-chief. Town & Country magazine named the magazine is "daring, smutty, inimical, and the frankly weird," noting the magazines predilection for championing new writers and a vast selection of books, both high brow and low brow.

Mallett published the novella Deliverance (Smutburger, 2022).