Molly Peacock is a poet, biographer, essayist, and writer of tales whose multi-genre literary life has taken her from New York City to Toronto, from poetry to prose, from words to words-and-pictures, and from lyric self-examination to curiosity about the lives of others.
Peacock is a widely anthologized poet as well as a biographer. The author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, she is also the author of two biographies, Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door, and The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72. As a poetry activist, Peacock was the co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways and buses and the founder of The Best Canadian Poetry. A former Leon Levy Fellow, her biography of Mrs. Delany, The Paper Garden, was named a Book of the Year by The Economist, The Globe and Mail, Booklist, The London Evening Standard, The Irish Times, and The Sunday Telegraph. She lives in Toronto.
