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Molly Spencer

Molly Spencer‘s poetry has appeared in FIELD, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and elsewhere. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, The Rumpus, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her poem “Interior with a Woman Peeling Oranges, Snapping Beans” won the Poetry Society of America’s 2018 Lucile Medwick Memorial Award, judged by Maggie Smith. Molly holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and is Poetry Editor at The Rumpus. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. Find her online at www.mollyspencer.com.