Molly Howes is a writer of nonfiction and memoir. Her writing has been named a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, the New Millennium Prize for Nonfiction and the Writers @ Work Fellowship. In 2014, she completed the intensive, yearlong Memoir Incubator Program at Grub Street writers’ center and will attend a residency at Ragdale. She was a recent Fellow at the MacDowell Colony
Her publications include the New York Times “Modern Love” column, the Boston Globe Magazine, Bellingham Review, The Tampa Review, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, (which she also read on NPR’s “Morning Edition”), Passages North “Writers on Writing” column, Marco Polo Arts Magazine and the UU World. She has also contributed to the Grub Street blogs and psychologytoday.com.
She is writing a memoir called The Temporary Orphan: A Tale of Invisible Wounds and Unexpected Grace, which tells the story of three years she lived in an orphanage as a child. The book is about a child’s grit and spirit, but also about the costs of her resilience. The Temporary Orphan is a quiet but extraordinary tale of triumph, a story of indomitable hope, grounded by stubborn self-reliance.
Molly Howes’s thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist in the Boston area have crucially shaped her sensibilities; rearing children has taught her more.
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