About

Dallin Malmgren with apple in his mouth

Dallin Malm­gren, author and educator

Dallin Malm­gren has writ­ten over ten nov­els and sev­er­al screen­plays, while also teach­ing high school for the past 33 years.  Most of his books fall into the cat­e­go­ry of young adult fiction.

His first nov­el, The Whole Nine Yards, was pub­lished through Dell Pub­lish­ing and won hon­or­able men­tion in the Dela­corte Press Prize. The Ninth Issue was also pub­lished by Dell in 1989. Is This for a Grade? (a col­lec­tion of essays about teach­ing) was pub­lished by Coro­na Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in 1994. He has also pub­lished in var­i­ous mag­a­zines, ful­filled many speak­ing engage­ments, and served as writer-in-res­i­dence for the High­lights for Chil­dren Writ­ers’ Retreat in Chau­tauqua, New York.

Malm­gren was born in upstate New York, the third of six chil­dren. He grew up in Philadel­phia  Penn­syl­va­nia. His fam­i­ly moved his senior year of high school to St. Louis. He briefly attend­ed the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri as a busi­ness major, then left to spend some years in trav­el and self-reflec­tion. He mar­ried in 1976 and returned to Uni­ver­si­ty of Mis­souri where he received a degree in Eng­lish with a minor in Edu­ca­tion. His fam­i­ly moved to Texas in 1984. He now resides in New Braun­fels, Texas. He is the father of three, and a proud grandfather.

Malm­gren has spent 33 years teach­ing in pub­lic high schools. He has taught every lev­el of Eng­lish, Cre­ative Writ­ing, and Pho­to­jour­nal­ism. He has also coached ten­nis and vol­ley­ball. He plans to retire the sum­mer of 2014, giv­ing him more time to spend on his writ­ing and his golf game.