Molly Akin is a writer and director of a historic nonprofit library on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Originally from Kansas City, she explored the world as an “unschooled” teenager before earning degrees from Tufts University and Harvard University.

Molly was a featured reader along with Jane Huffman and Diane Seuss during the 2024 Tell it Slant poetry festival hosted by the Emily Dickinson Museum. She has read in other venues including Wilder Words, Fine Arts Work Center, and New England Poetry Club.  Molly is a 2023 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and her writing has been supported by the Sundress Academy for the Arts and Fine Arts Work Center. A semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book Prize, Molly’s work has been published or is forthcoming from Brevity, Identity Theory, Inflectionist Review, Paraselene, and Tulip Tree. 

Her chapbook, Hospice, was the 2024 Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition winner and will be published in fall 2025.

Event Highlights:

UPCOMING EVENT: Saturday, May 31, 2025, 10:15am - Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA

The Informal Formal: A Craft Reading explores new forms and how to determine a “right” form for the poem’s subject (even the “timeless” one). Each of the readers will offer a selection of their work and discuss how the poems were shaped during the writing and revision process, with a focus on the “formal” choices made. Featuring Molly Akin, Desiree C. Bailey, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, and Michael Mercurio.