Molly McCully Brown is the author of the poetry collection The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded and the essay collection Places I’ve Taken My. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the poetry collection In the Field Between Us. The recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, and the 2018–2019 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, she directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wyoming.