Molly Spencer's recent poetry has appeared in Blackbird, FIELD, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. Her critical writing has appeared in Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review online, and The Rumpus. Her debut poetry collection, If the House, won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge, was co-winner of the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph, and is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press in fall 2020. She is a senior poetry editor at The Rumpus and teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.