Molly Peacock was born on Buffalo, New York 1947 and is an American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre work includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show.
10 Facts About Molly Peacock
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Molly Peacock's works include The Paper Garden, a biography of Mary Delany, an 18th-century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity.
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Molly Peacock is the author of a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece.
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Molly Peacock is the editor of a collection of creative non-fiction, Private I: Privacy in a Public World.
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Molly Peacock was the Series Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English from 2008 to 2017, as well as a Contributing Editor of the Literary Review of Canada.
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Molly Peacock was married to scholar Michael Groden, who died in March 2021.
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Molly Peacock has received recognition from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts.
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Molly Peacock was President of the Poetry Society of America from 1989 to 1995, and again from 1999 to 2001.
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Molly Peacock was Poet in Residence at the American Poets' Corner, Cathedral Church of St John the Divine from 2000 to 2005.
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Molly Peacock was Regents' Fellow at University of California, Riverside and Poet in Residence at Bucknell University and the University of Western Ontario.