Molly Bolton’s poetry is rooted in the landscape of Appalachia and is interested in liberative frameworks of spirituality. Her chapbook What Blooms in the Dark was selected by Marie Howe as the 2024 Poets Corner Chapbook Contest winner. She is the winner of the 2025 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, was named a 2022 Gilbert-Chappell emerging poet, and her flash nonfiction has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her writing appears in Susurrus Magazine, Loblolly Press, Whale Road Review, EcoTheo, Hippocampus, enfleshed.com, and is forthcoming in a Hurricane Helene anthology.
