| Molly McGrann | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Occupation | Literary Editor Novelist Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1998-Present |
Molly McGrann is an American literary critic, poet, and novelist. She is an alumna of Skidmore College and New York University. She lives in England.
Contents |
McGrann graduated from Skidmore College, in 1995, and went on to receive an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University in New York City She is a literary critic and the author of two novels.
In December 1998, McGrann married musician Colin Greenwood, in Oxford, England.[1] They live in a small village in Oxfordshire with their three sons, Jesse, Asa and Henry.[2]
McGrann has worked as a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and as a contributing editor for The Paris Review.[1] She has also had poems published in various literary magazines including TriQuarterly and Arion.[3][4] She is a London Editor of A Public Space, a quarterly literary magazine, founded in 2005 by Brigid Hughes, former Executive Editor of The Paris Review.[5]
Her first novel, 360 Flip, looked at the tensions lying below the surface of the "American Dream" in a 60s Levittown-style suburb, through the eyes of a disillusioned young poet growing up there in the 1950s. It was dedicated to her husband, Colin Greenwood.[6]
Exurbia, McGrann's second novel, set in Los Angeles in the mid 80s during the Reagan era, is about the mentally ill living in the margins of society. It follows an insecure thirteen-year-old woman suffering from bi-polar disorder, Lise, and the parallel story of Ed Valencia, as their lives become entangled with the violent world of L.A.'s homeless gangs. It was dedicated to her parents.[7]