Molly McGhee is from a cluster of unincorporated towns outside of Nashville, Tennessee. She completed her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University, where, in addition to receiving a Chair's Fellowship, she taught in the undergraduate creative writing department. She has worked in the editorial departments of McSweeney's, The Believer, NOON, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Currently living in Brooklyn, her work has appeared in The Paris Review.
‘Molly McGhee is a fearlessly inventive and exquisitely poised writer, one who knows how to aim right at the jugular … trippy, incisive, and, most importantly, riotously funny’ Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine ‘Here’s an original mind brimming over with invention and comic ferocity and a new world sensibility that serves to remind us what good hands the future of literature is in’ Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet ‘Molly McGhee’s luminary imagination makes this debut a wonder. Precision, humor, heart, this is a stunner’ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars ‘In the light of this insightfully nightmarish parable of the pervasive ravages of debt, Abernathy’s optimism, and the serene pace of McGhee’s prose, are stone cold chilling’ Halle Butler, author of The New Me ‘An exuberant, poignant, freewheeling debut full of complication and surprise … very funny’ Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation ‘The fiction of Molly McGhee is funny, freaky, intellectually bold and always from the heart’ Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask ‘Welcome to the somnambulatory prose of Molly McGhee, where vivid nightmares and lucid tender dreams live side by side. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is a revelation … There's nothing like it, awake or asleep or anywhere in between’ Hilary Leichter, author of Temporary ‘Lively, vacillating between humor and heartbreak at breakneck speeds, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is the rare novel that truly feels like it could've only been written by a single brilliant mind’ Jean Kyoung Frazier author of Pizza Girl ‘A deeply humane novel … McGhee is a marvellous chronicler of the fantastic, the perverse, and the sublime’ Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog