Molly McCully Brown

Molly McCully Brown is the author of the poetry collection "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded" (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017, and the forthcoming essay collection "Places I’ve Taken my Body" (Persea Books, 2020). With Susannah Nevison, she is also the coauthor of the poetry collection "In The Field Between Us" (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2020).

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 in The New York Times, Tin House, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, Blackbird and elsewhere.

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 in poetry.

She lives in Gambier, Ohio, and teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Kenyon Review Fellow in Poetry.