Molly Spencer

Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, and editor. Her debut poetry collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge, won the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph, and is forthcoming from SIU Press in 2020. Molly’s recent poetry has appeared in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, FIELD, the Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, the Georgia Review, Kenyon Review online, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. Spencer earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and lives in the Detroit area.