Born in Iowa. Grew up in Colorado. Moved to Chicago in 2001. The rest is poetry.
“If they spent their days allowing their bosses to rage at them just to keep their jobs, how was fiction going to help them?”
—Elena Medel, ‘The Wonders’ (Pushkin Press, 2020).
Molly’s creative work deals with labor, class, economic realities, and climate issues. She’s been working at least one job, sometimes two, ever since she detasseled corn as a teenager, but she still hasn’t become rich. Her wealth is her friends, beloved landscapes, memories, and stories. She believes fiction can help us.
She also loves wit and humor, because how else could we live through these times?
Molly was trained in formal research methods in a PhD program in philosophy and enjoys the precision and structure of editing academic work.
As a creative, however, she’s a true pantser. IYKYK. She stumbles upon archival stuff and turns it into novels or poems, and is unafraid of any box or file labeled “miscellaneous.”
Her editorial services specialize in developmental work on larger projects.
Molly is also a medical copy editor specializing in pediatric healthcare communication. So, whether it’s for a memoir in verse, or an article on clinical research, she’s your girl for technical language, big-picture thinking, responding as a reader, and “argument-overhaul.”
Reach out to find out more!