Molly McCully Brown is returning to Columbia!

Since she appeared at the second Unbound, Molly McCully Brown has been busy. Her debut collection of poetry, The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017, and as the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, she has spent much of the last year writing in a host of different countries.  The fruits of those labors will be available soon: in 2020, Persea Books will publish her essay collection, Places I’ve Taken my Body and a book of poems, In The Field Between Us, co-authored with Susannah Nevison.

Brown has been the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and the Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship from the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, and elsewhere.

Raised in rural Virginia, she is a graduate of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Stanford University, and the University of Mississippi, where she received her MFA. She lives in Gambier, Ohio and teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Kenyon Review Fellow in Poetry.

We’re thrilled to welcome Molly back to Unbound!