Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, and editor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize. A second collection, Hinge​, was co-winner of the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition and is forthcoming from SIU Press in October, 2020. Her poetry has appeared in Blackbird, FIELD, The Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared at Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan.

Books by Molly Spencer:

Other poems on the web by Molly Spencer:
"After Reading the Story of Assumption Chapel in Cold Spring, Minnesota"
"Even So, the First Bird"
Two poems
Three poems

Molly Spencer's Website.

Molly Spencer on Twitter.

About If the House:

"Molly Spencer's If the House leads her to places more inward than is safe to go. Her portrait of life's silences is fundamental and mysterious. Here is a riveting, deeply moving book of marriage and its dissolutions—between husband and wife, between a woman and her home, between dream and memory— rendered as a beautiful, complex metaphor for the most veiled and vulnerable parts of our existence:"
—David Biespiel

"Spencer's flat-out terrific debut collection of poems embraces the spirit of duende. Houses, meadows, lakes, even memories are places of refuge, but also pain. Through fresh, haunting imagery, Spencer exposes the 'inevitable cracks' of the domestic, love's sorrows and shortfalls.""
—Ellen Bass