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Molly McCully Brown [1]

Listed as:

Poet

Email:

mmccullybrown@gmail.com

Bio:

Molly McCully Brown is the author of The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. A collection of essays, and a collaborative collection of poems titled In The Field Between Us co-authored with Susannah Nevison are both forthcoming from Persea Books in 2020.

Brown has been the recipient of fellowships from the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, United States Artists, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, and elsewhere.

A 2019-2020 Kenyon Review Fellow, she teaches at Kenyon College.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Twitter/X:

@mmccullybrown

Born in:

Website:

https://mollymccullybrown.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

Kenyon Review Fellowship 2019-2020; Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship 2018-2019; United States Artists Fellowship 2018; Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize 2018; Oxford American Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship 2017-2018; Civitella Ranieri Fellowship 2017; Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize 2016.

Literary Agent:

Anna Stein

Education:

University of Mississippi, Oxford

Prefers to work with:

Any