{{short description|American poet}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> |image = | | name = Molly McGrann | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = United States | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Literary Editor<br/>Novelist<br/> Poet | education = Skidmore College<br>New York University (MFA) | period = 1998–present | genre = | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }}
'''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.
==Biography== McGrann graduated from Skidmore College in 1995, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. She is a literary critic and the author of two novels.
In December 1998, McGrann married the Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood in Oxford, England.<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal |last1=Klosterman |first1=Chuck |author1-link=Chuck Klosterman |title=No More Knives |journal=Spin |date=July 2003 |url=https://www.spin.com/2023/03/no-more-knives-our-2003-radiohead-cover-story/ |access-date=30 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="SCOPE">{{cite news | title=Class Notes 2000 | date=2000-08-01 | url =http://www.skidmore.edu/scope/summer2000/classnotes/90s.html | work =Skidmore Scope Magazine | access-date = 2007-06-16 }}</ref> They live in a village in Oxfordshire with their three sons, Jesse, Asa and Henry.<ref name="MOJO03">{{cite news | title=Into the Light | date=2003-08-01 | url=http://radioheadperu.com/prensa/i_mojo03.html | work=MOJO | access-date=2007-06-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221231130/http://radioheadperu.com/prensa/i_mojo03.html | archive-date=2012-02-21 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Writing== McGrann has worked as a reviewer for the ''Times Literary Supplement'' and as a contributing editor for ''The Paris Review''.<ref name="SCOPE"/> She has also had poems published in various literary magazines including ''TriQuarterly'' and ''Arion''.<ref name="TRIQ">{{cite news | first=Molly | last=McGrann | title= From Less Than Spring, a long poem of conditions. | date=1999-09-22 | url =http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-59615913.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110516165957/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-59615913.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =2011-05-16 | work =TriQuarterly | access-date = 2007-06-20 }}</ref><ref name="ARION">{{cite news | first=Molly | last=McGrann | title=Hermaphroditus | date=2002-04-01 | url =http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume7/7.3/arion73.htm | work =Arion | access-date = 2007-06-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070711083736/http://www.bu.edu/arion/Volume7/7.3/arion73.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-07-11}}</ref> 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''.<ref name="PARIS">{{cite news| title=Masthead| date=2005-12-16| url=http://www.apublicspace.org/about.html| work=A Public Space| access-date=2007-06-18| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611234831/http://apublicspace.org/about.html| archive-date=2007-06-11}}</ref>
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.<ref name="MCGRANN1">{{cite book | first=Molly | last=McGrann | title=360 Flip | date=2004-06-16 | publisher=Picador | pages =192 }}</ref>
''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 girl suffering from bipolar 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.<ref name="MCGRANN2">{{cite book | first=Molly | last=McGrann | title=Exurbia | date=2007-02-17 | publisher=Picador | pages =300 }}</ref>
==Works==
===Fiction=== * ''360 Flip'' (2004)<ref>Reviews of ''360 Flip'': * {{cite news |last1=Barber |first1=Laura |title=Skating on acid |work=Times Literary Supplement |page=21 |date=9 July 2004}} * {{cite news |last1=Leith |first1=William |title=Suburb of Lost Souls |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/753189837 |work=Daily Telegraph |date=17 July 2004 |page=10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210015302/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/07/16/bomcg18.xml/ |archive-date=10 February 2008}} *{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Hephzibah |title=Review: Family fortunes: A crop of debut novelists finds that blood is always thicker than water and far more rewarding |work=The Observer |date=June 27, 2004}} {{ProQuest|250598347}} </ref> * ''Exurbia'' (2007)<ref>Reviews of ''Exurbia'': * {{cite web |last1=Donaldson |first1=Brian |title=Molly McGrann |url=https://list.co.uk/news/41048/molly-mcgrann |website=list.co.uk |publisher=The List |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en}} * {{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=Elinor |title=The Kids in America |work=New Statesman |page=61 |language=en |date=12 February 2007}} * Hibbert, Katharine. "FICTION-Exurbia-Molly McGrann." ''The Times Literary Supplement'' 5423 (2007): 19. * {{cite news |last1=Leith |first1=William |title=Clouds Break Through the Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/753403136 |work=Daily Telegraph |date=17 March 2007 |page=27}} * {{cite news |last1=Newmarch |first1=Jocelyn |title=Fiction |url=http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2007/2007apr/070405-past.html |work=Mail & Guardian Online |date=5 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070531090809/http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2007/2007apr/070405-past.html |archive-date=31 May 2007}} *{{cite news |last1=Purdon |first1=James |title=Review: Books: Exurbia, Molly McGrann, Picador £7.99 |work=The Observer |date=March 2, 2008}} {{ProQuest|250499452}} </ref> * ''The Ladies of the House'' (2015)<ref>Reviews of ''The Ladies of the House'': * {{cite news |last1=Heathcote |first1=Charlotte |title=Novel approach: The best literary fiction in March |url=https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/564987/Best-literary-fiction-March-2015 |work=Daily Express |date=22 March 2015 |language=en}} *{{cite news |title=THE LADIES OF THE HOUSE |work=The Examiner |publisher=Fairfax Media |date=May 3, 2015 |location=Launceston, Tas.}} {{ProQuest|1677662790}} * {{cite news |last1=Blackman |first1=Janie |title=Review: Ladies of the House by Molly McGrann |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/12947910.review-ladies-house-molly-mcgrann/ |work=Oxford Mail |access-date=30 July 2023 |language=en |date=14 May 2015}} </ref>
===Poetry===
* ''From Less Than Spring, a long poem of conditions.''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516165957/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-59615913.html] (1999) * ''Hermaphroditus'' (2002)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611234831/http://apublicspace.org/about.html A Public Space] official website
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