Molly is from Michigan and currently lives in Georgia. Her poems have recently appeared in Field, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, and Colorado Review. Her first book of poetry, A Little Middle of the Night, won the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize.

In this episode, we talk about the dangers of storytelling, difficulties in working with editors at big presses, how becoming a better person can help you become a better writer, the teaching of creative writing, baking, and book recommendations.

Molly can be found online at...

• Twitter | @MollyBrodak
• Molly's baking blog | Kookie House
• Molly's teaching blog | SibilantFricative

Buy Molly's books...

• Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir (memoir)
• A Little Middle of the Night (poetry collection)
• Essay on Parts of Day (poetry chapbook) -- out of print
• The Flood (poetry chapbook)
• Instructions for a Painting (poetry chapbook)

• Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle
• My Life by Lyn Hejinian
• Diaries, 1910-1923 by Franz Kafka
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
• The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness by David Gelernter
• What Is Landscape? by John R. Stilgoe
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

Enjoy.

-Andrew

Molly Brodak
David Fishkind
Kristen Iskandrian
Rachel Wortell