Reading with Molly Giles

Other Books

Molly Giles

Molly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and one novel. Most notably, Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize, the Boston Globe Award, and The Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award; Creek Walk won The Small Press Best Fiction Award, the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her work has also earned The O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize, and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Marin Arts Council, and the Arkansas Arts Council. 

Saturday, August 19, 2023
7:00 pm

Reading with Molly Giles

Molly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and one novel. Most notably, Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award; other notable accolades have been awarded from the Small Press Best Fiction Award for Creek Walk which also earned a Commonwealth Silver Medal Award for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Bothered won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award; and All The Wrong Places won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. Her work has also earned The O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Marin Arts Council, and the Arkansas Arts Council. 

Wife With Knife was the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize. Her latest book,The Home For Unwed Husbands also published by Leapfrog Press/Can of Worms Enterprises in the U.S. and U.K.

About the author

Molly Giles

Visit website

Molly Giles’ newest collection of short stories, Wife With Knife, recently won the Leap Frog Fiction Contest and will be published in October of 2021. She has published four previous prize winning collections of stories: Rough Translations, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Boston Globe Award, and the the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award; Creek Walk, which won the Small Press Best Fiction Award, the California Commonwealth Silver Medal for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book; Bothered, which won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award and All the Wrong Places, which won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She has also published a novel, Iron Shoes, and an ebook of stories, Three for the Road. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies including the O.Henry and Pushcart Prize (twice) and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Marin Arts Council, and the Arkansas Arts Council.

Molly has taught fiction writing at San Francisco State University, University of Hawaii in Manoa, San Jose State University, the National University of Ireland at Galway, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and at numerous writing conferences, including The Community of Writers and Naropa. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Book Reviewing, been awarded residences at MacDowell, Yadoo, and The House of Literature in Paros, Greece, and has edited many published writers, including Amy Tan.


Visit author's personal site

Do you have any question?

Send us a message

Thank you! Your message has been received!
We will respond as soon as possible.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.