Molly Gaudry is the author of We Take Me Apart, which was shortlisted for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil and a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. The verse novel has been taught at Brown, Wesleyan, Cornell College, Queens College, CUNY, and other creative writing programs in the US. In 2018, Ampersand Books will release its sequel, Desire: A Haunting. Molly is currently a Steffensen Cannon fellow at the University of Utah. Summers, she teaches fiction, flash fiction, and lyric essay workshops for the Yale Writers' Workshop. She is also the founder of Lit Pub.