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.

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