Molly Kirschner

Molly Kirschner is a poet, playwright, performer, and educator. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Southern Review, The New Ohio Review, and One Magazine, and four of her poems are forthcoming in Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Kirschner was awarded the inaugural poetry residency at The Hundredth Hill: "Resilience: the Poet's Response to These Troubled Times." Her new manuscript Sweeten It With Salt was a finalist for the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. In September 2025, Kirschner will be teaching a workshop called "Writing For Ourselves and Each Other, Not the Critic" for the Kalamazoo Poetry Festival.

A teaching artist at Vermont Stage and 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. In May of 2025, she performed this 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. 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 of Vermont Stage to create a branch of the Vermont Young Playwrights Festival for multilingual learners.