Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including THE SECOND BLUSH, published by W.W. Norton and Company (US) and McClelland and Stewart (Canada).

Her poems, published in leading literary journals, are widely anthologized, appearing in The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry.

She is also the author of a memoir, PARADISE, PIECE BY PIECE, published by Riverhead Books and McClelland and Stewart, and the editor of a collection of essays on privacy, THE PRIVATE I: Privacy in a Public World published by Graywolf Press. Her essays appear in Oprah Magazine, Elle, New York Magazine and The Best American Essays, 2007. She is also the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge.”

Peacock teaches at the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program. Among her honors are Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, Ingram Merrill and NEA grants. She has been President of the Poetry Society of America, a co-creator of Poetry in Motion on the nations’ buses and subways, Poet-in-Residence at the Poets’ Corner. Peacock is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, where she is the Series Editor for The Best Canadian Poetry and Poetry Editor of the Literary Review of Canada.

This year she holds a Fellowship from the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center to write a book about the 18th century flower collage artist Mrs. Mary Delany.