“Writers write with power and precision when they identify with their material and use their authentic voices.”
photo of Molly Moynahan by Garret Buckley
Molly Moynahan is an award-winning author, writing coach, college essay expert, editor, biography writer, speech writer, English teacher, and supportive high school academic coach with over thirty years of publishing experience. Her coaching creates independence and a writing practice that focuses on the process as much as results.
She is a strong advocate for the academic community, whether she is supporting students, teachers, administrators, or parents, in their mutual hope for improving student achievement.
She supports parents of children with learning disabilities, anxiety disorders focused on writing, and coaching C-suite executives. She is also a writing coach and editor for fiction, business books, memoirs, and personal essays. Her first two novels were published in the late nineties with Stone Garden, a New York Times Notable Book published in 2003. She currently resides in Northern Michigan.
Molly Moynahan is the recipient of several grants and awards including a fellowship to write digital stories at the National Gallery in Washington, a fellowship to study the short story at The University of Chicago, several writing residencies, and a grant to bring a poet into her classroom. As a literacy consultant for Changing Worlds, she worked with teaching artists to bring art and writing to Chicago and Evanston Public Schools. Molly is currently living, writing, and teaching in Leland, Michigan.
She started her writing career in New York City, moved to London, Dallas, Chicago and Leland. She received a Master in Fiction Writing from Brooklyn College after completing her undergraduate degree (BA) in English and history at Rutgers University and Trinity College in Dublin. She worked for several years as an editor for Random House and Bantam-Doubleday-Dell in New York City, moving into writing and teaching after receiving her first book deal. She has taught writing and creative writing at Rutgers, Brooklyn College, City Lit in London, Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, and Loyola University.
Molly Moynahan on vacation in Kauai, 2023.