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Molly McCully Brown serves as Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming's English Department within the College of Arts and Sciences. A distinguished literary figure, she holds an M.F.A. from the University of Mississippi, a B.A. from Stanford University, and an A.A. from Bard College at Simon's Rock.
Her research spans Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Disability Studies, Public Humanities, and American Eugenics history. Brown's work interrogates bodily experience through cerebral palsy narratives, religious conversion, twin loss, and eugenics history, with particular focus on the American South. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges literary arts with medical humanities and public memory studies.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent exploration of disability justice, historical trauma, and hybrid forms. Brown employs lyrical precision to examine institutional violence (particularly Virginia's eugenics program), bodily autonomy, and spiritual resilience through memoir, poetry, and lyric essays.
Her significant honors include:
- United States Artists fellowship
- Civitella Ranieri Foundation fellowship
- Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
- Jeff Baskin Writers fellowship from Oxford American
Brown actively mentors emerging writers as Director of Creative Writing while contributing to literary discourse through publications in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and The Yale Review. She serves as Editor in Chief of Image Journal, demonstrating commitment to the public humanities. Her work emerges from collaborative projects like the co-authored poetry collection In the Field Between Us with Susannah Nevison, reflecting her investment in disability justice communities.
