Molly Gaudry

“With language, Gaudry is as loving and careful as one is with a matchbook … when wishing to set the whole world on fire.”

—KATE BERNHEIMER

“A Molly Gaudry word is so precise, it feels like a sentence.”

—GREAT TWIN CITIES POETRY READ & ROAD SHOW

“Not a word is out of place.”

— EMERGING WRITERS NETWORK

Molly Gaudry

is the founder of Lit Pub and the author of the verse novel We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterweil. Desire: A Haunting, its sequel, and Fit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir, are further explorations of the same storyworld and characters. Molly holds masters degrees in fiction and poetry from the University of Cincinnati and George Mason University, respectively, and a PhD in experimental prose from the University of Utah. An assistant professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University, she teaches poetry and nonfiction in the BFA and MFA programs. Summers, she teaches fiction at the Yale Writers’ Workshop.

“Gaudry is our Neruda, our Marquez, our chronicler of times spent and as yet foretold.”

—JAMIE IREDELL

“No one but Gaudry paints language with so much care, with so much lonely, heart-dreamed beauty. No one else paints scars so naked and so necessary.”

—AMBER SPARKS