Molly Fisk

After she got her MBA and worked as a Fortune 1000 lender, Molly slid down the ladder of success until she reached the rung labelled "poet," where she is happy. She supports herself by teaching writing: at U.C. Davis Extension, Sierra Nevada Cancer Center, California Poets in the Schools, in her own living room, and through Poetry Boot Camp, her six-day intensive Internet poetry workshop.

Molly found this picture recently, and the beret says it all: irrefutable evidence that poetry was where she was headed all along. (Photo credit: Irving Fisk and his Hasselblad, 1958)

Molly also gives talks on subjects like creativity, the healing power of writing, and why worrying about your weight slows down the revolution. She writes weekly essays for the KVMR News Hour and has published articles in Poets & Writers, AmericaWest's inflight magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, and Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Unfortunately, someone recently suggested that Molly's barely-begun collection of poems, Walking Wheel (about a pioneer family settling in 1870's California) should be a novel, so she is at home tearing out her hair. Molly does not want to be a novelist. She doesn't have the attention span for it.