Advisor Bio - Molly Peacock

Molly Peacock is the Poetry Editor of the Literary Review of Canada and the author of six volumes of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems and the forthcoming The Second Blush (both published by W.W. Norton and Company). Peacock is also the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge,” produced by London, Ontario based Louise Fagan Productions. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is the author of a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece, a book about poetry, How to Read a Poem and Start a Poetry Circle (both published by McClelland and Stewart) and the editor of a collection of essays on privacy, The Private I: Privacy in a Public World (Graywolf Press). As former President of the Poetry Society of America, she helped created the Poetry in Motion program on New York City’s subways and buses. She also served as Poet-in-Residence at the American Poets’ Corner, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Molly Peacock lives in Toronto with her husband Michael Groden, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, and serves as member of the Graduate Faculty of the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her website is: www.mollypeacock.org.