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Molly McCloy

Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth

2023 Unpublished Contest - Winner (Nonfiction & Memoir)

Molly McCloy is a four-time Moth slam winner and Lambda Literary fellow. Her memoir Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth won first place in the 2023 Book Pipeline Unpublished contest and has been excerpted in the Blue Mesa Review and Foglifter. An excerpt told as a live story for Risk! was chosen for their “Best of” Podcast.

Molly earned an MFA in Nonfiction from The New School and now teaches writing for the awesome students of Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona.

Reveling in the bright sunshine of a joy she once thought impossible, Molly lives with her wife Rebecca and their dog Princess Pinwheels of the Purple Mountains.

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"Nine Grudges" by Molly McCloy Picked Up by Red Hen

October 17, 2024

2023 Unpublished winner (Nonfiction) Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth by Molly McCloy will be published by Red Hen Press in 2026.

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