Molly Olguín (the “guí” sound is the same one as in “guillotine”) is a queer writer and educator based in Seattle. She holds a BA in English from Williams College and an MFA in Fiction from The Ohio State University. She teaches English and creative writing to high school students.

Her debut collection The Sea Gives Up The Dead is the winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, and is out now with Red Hen Press. Her short stories have appeared in Foglifter, The Normal School, River Styx, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She was a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow, and a recipient of the Loft Mentor Series fellowship in 2019. With Jackie Hedeman, she is the creator of the queer sci fi audio drama “The Pasithea Powder.”

She loves small cats, crows, and monsters of all kinds.

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