Molly Harris currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Ben, and their three cats: Raleigh, Jackson, and Oakland. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently the deputy editor at Boulevard Magazine; an adjunct instructor and online writing lab tutor at Jefferson College; and a professional tutor at St. Louis Community College-Meramec. She is the former managing editor of both River Styx Literary Magazine and Natural Bridge Literary Journal.
Her prose and poetry have been published or is forthcoming in the Bennington Review, Westwind: UCLA’s Journal of Arts, Barnstorm Journal, and elsewhere. In 2019, she was named New Writer of the Year by Over the Edge in Galway, Ireland, where she studied at the University of Galway on the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Scholarship of Irish Studies. In 2018, her story, “Night on the Moon,” was an honorable mention for Glimmer Train‘s Short Story Award for New Writers. She has participated in the Kenyon Writers’ Workshop under both Lesley Nneka Arimah and Joseph Earl Thomas.
She has planned and hosted a variety of different literary events through her work at Natural Bridge, River Styx, and Boulevard. She has been a featured reader for a variety of different institutions and events, such as the Irish Culture and Literature Symposium in St. Louis, and has given multiple guest lectures to students at places such as Washington University in St. Louis and the PocketMFA.
She is currently working on a novel, tentatively titled DISCREET MUSIC, which is a literary ghost story about both the living and the dead.
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