About
Molly Beer (she/her) is a nonfiction writer whose writing grapples with the politics of place and women's history. Her essays & longform journalism have appeared in Salon, Guernica, Vela, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Terrain, and elsewhere, with selections listed as Notable by Best American Travel Writing and included in Best Women’s Travel Writing. She is also coauthor of Singing Out, with David King Dunaway and Pete Seeger (Oxford University Press). She holds degrees from Duke University, Univ. New Mexico, and Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English; and she is a former Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University.
She is also the author of Angelica, a biography of the American Revolution's Angelica Schuyler Church, forthcoming from W. W. Norton in summer 2025.
Photo by H Romero.
