Molly S. McGlennen

Molly S. McGlennen is an American poet and scholar of Anishinaabe and European descent. She is a professor of English and Native American studies at Vassar College. She is currently the vice president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. Her book Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry was winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award for Outstanding Scholarship in American Indian Studies.

McGlennen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She holds a PhD in Native American studies from UC Davis and an MFA in creative writing from Mills College.

Published works

Books

Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014). Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits (Salt Publishing, 2010).

Work in anthologies Our Lives Are Made of Recipes in Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversation, Eds. Dean Rader and C. Marie Fuhrman, Tupelo Press, 2019 Snake River IV in Ghost Fishing: An Anthology of Eco-Justice Poetry, Ed. Melissa Tucky, University of Georgia Press, 2017 Composition in Tending the Fire, Ed. Chris Felver, University of New Mexico Press, 2017 Snake River III and “Snake River IV,” Red Ink, Spring 2015 Bonfire I “Bonfire III,” and “Bonfire IV,” Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2014 Snake River V As/Us: A Space for Women of the World, Issue 3, 2014 Snake River II and “Bonfire II,” Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2012 Snake River I Natural Bridge Literary Journal, No. 26, Fall 2011 Interwoven Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (Sun Tracks): University of Arizona Press, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Editor), Nov. 2011 Three Poems for Ellia Sentence, Jan. 2010