Words on Wednesday

Our guest author for the month is Molly McGlennen

Molly McGlennen is a poet of Anishinaabe descent and the author of two poetry collections, Our Bearings (University of Arizona Press, 2020) and Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits (Salt Publishing, 2010). She has also authored Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Beatrice Medicine Award for Outstanding Scholarship in American Indian Studies, and co-edited Indigenous Poetics (Michigan State University Press, 2025), which earned the Carter Revard Legacy Award for best edited collection.

Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, she is a Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she currently lives.

Join us and give a warm welcome to our author!