Molly Kirschner

Molly Kirschner is a poet, playwright, essayist, performer, and educator. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Southern Review, The New Ohio Review, and Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Her essay "Obstruction of Correspondence" is forthcoming in Poetry International Online. Kirschner was awarded the inaugural poetry residency at The Hundredth Hill. Her poetry collection Sweeten It With Salt, a finalist for the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize, is forthcoming from Etruscan Press. In July of 2025, she joined Engaging the Senses Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to poetry and the arts, in the role of special initiatives coordinator.

A resident playwright of Rising Sun Performance Company, Kirschner debuted her original solo show “Double Dose of Molly” as part of the inaugural 2024 SNAP Festival at The Flynn Center in Burlington, VT, and reprised the piece for the annual EstroGenius Festival in NYC. Monologues from her plays L’appel du Vide (a finalist for ThinkTank Theatre’s 2021 TYA Playwrights Festival) and Woman With A Parasol have been published in Smith and Kraus’ Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Best Women’s Stage Monologues anthologies. A teaching artist at Vermont Stage, Kirschner holds a Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Saint Michael’s College, and is currently working with the education coordinator at Vermont Stage to create a branch of the Vermont Young Playwrights Festival for multilingual learners.