Molly McCully Brown
Wednesday, February 5th from 4:10-5:10 pm in the Bayley Room
Molly McCully Brown is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Places I’ve Taken My Body (Persea Books, 2020) and co-author of the forthcoming poetry collection with Susannah Nevison, In The Field Between Us (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2020). Her first poetry collection, The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017.
Brown has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship and the Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship from the Oxford American magazine. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Paris Review, Tin House, Crazyhorse, The New York Times, Pleiades, The Yale Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere.
Of her first book of poems, the New York Times wrote, “Molly McCully Brown’s first book of poems, ‘The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded,’ is a part history lesson, part séance, part ode to dread…It is beautiful and devastating.”
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 her MFA. She currently lives in Gambier, Ohio and teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Kenyon Review Fellow in Poetry.
Event Name/Title:
Molly McCully Brown, Essayist, and Poet, Reading
Start Date: 2020-02-05
Start Time: 04:10PM
End Date: 2020-02-05
End Time: 05:10 PM
Location: Leon A. Beeghly Library, Room Bayley Room
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OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: English Department – Poets and Writers Series.
Contact: Beth Fedoush at bmfedoush@owu.edu