Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock’s latest poetry collection is The Widow’s Crayon Box (W.W. Norton). She is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, as well as A Friend Sails in on a Poem, about a 47-year friendship in poetry. Peacock is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses, the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry series and, most recently, creator of The Secret Poetry Room at Binghamton University. Her poems appear in leading literary journals such as The Walrus, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review and The Malahat Review. Awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Canada Council, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Peacock is also a memoirist and biographer, author of two books about creativity in the lives of women artists: The Paper Garden and Flower Diary. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, she lives in Toronto and teaches at 92NY.
