Molly S. McGlennen is an American poet and scholar of

Anishinaabe The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of C ...

and European descent. She is a professor of English and

Native American studies Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and co ...

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

. She is currently the vice president of the

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL) is a professional academic organization. It was founded in 1971 to promote the study, criticism, and research of American Indian literary traditions, both written and oral. Its ...

. 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 The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

and an MFA in creative writing from

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...

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

References

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