Biography
Born as Judith Ann Powers in Boston a month after Pearl Harbor, Malloy was raised in Massachusetts. Her mother was a journalist and newspaper editor and her father, a Normandy veteran, worked as assistant district attorney in two Massachusetts counties and then as Chief Assistant US Attorney for Massachusetts. Malloy skied and played tennis, summering in New Hampshire, Cape Cod and the Berkshires. Malloy felt an early calling to the visual arts and began painting and sketching as a child.
After graduating from Middlebury College with a degree in literature and work in studio art and art history, Malloy took a job at the Library of Congress and also traveled in Europe.
In the next few years, while writing and making art, Malloy worked as a technical information specialist at the NASA contractor Ball Brothers Research Corporation, running their technical library and learning FORTRAN programming in order to identify relevant content for research.
Moving to the East Bay in the early 1970s, Malloy lived in Berkeley where, in addition to installations and performances, she developed a series of artists books that incorporated non-sequential narratives driven by words and images. She currently resides in El Sobrante, California. Her papers are currently being archived by the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
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