Molly Gloss
Biography
Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss is the author of four novels and numerous short stories, yet she didn't start writing seriously until she was thirty-five. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Gloss confesses that she has always liked to write but that she "grew up in a period when smart girls were encouraged to be teachers or nurses. Nobody ever told me I could be a writer." After the birth of her son and a rocky adjustment period that yielded what she called a "desperate journal," Gloss enrolled in a writing class taught by Ursula K. Le Guin at Portland State University — an experience she called "life-altering." Her first book, Outside the Gates, was a young, adult fantasy that grew out of a short story written for her son. Her second novel, The Jump-Off Creek, was the winner of the Oregon Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She then published The Dazzle of Day, a foray into science fiction, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and received the PEN Center U.S.A. West Award for Fiction. Gloss is also the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award.Wild Life, her fourth novel, was recently awarded the James Tiptree Award for literary fantasy. Gloss teaches writing and literature of the American West at Portland State University and lives in Portland, Oregon.
Molly Gloss
