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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 in poetry. 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 an MFA. Her poems and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times, Pleiades, Image, and elsewhere. She’s been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the University of Mississippi, where she was a John and Renée Grisham fellow. She is the 2017-2018 Jeff Baskin Writers Fellow at The Oxford American magazine and is at work on a collection of essays as well as a collaborative collection of poems with the writer Susannah Nevison.
Portrait photo by Kristin Teston.
Portrait photo by Kristin Teston.
Donor -This award was generously supported by Helen Zell.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.08.2024