Molly McGhee is from a cluster of unincorporated towns outside of Nashville, Tennessee.She completed her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University, where, in addition to receiving a Chair’s Fellowship, she taught in the undergraduate creative writing department. She has worked in the editorial departments of McSweeney’s, The Believer, NOON, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Currently living in Brooklyn, her work has appeared in .