Molly Giles is the award-winning author of six story collections and two novels. Rough Translations won The Flannery O’Connor Prize the Boston Globe Award, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award.

Other notable accolades have been awarded from the Small Press Best Fiction Award for Creek Walk, which also earned a Commonwealth Silver Medal Award for Fiction, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Bothered won the Split Oak Press Flash Fiction Award; and All The Wrong Places won the Spokane Prize for Fiction.

Molly’s work has also earned The O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize, and she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Marin Arts Council, and the Arkansas Arts Council. Wife With Knife was the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize.

Her latest book, the novel The Home For Unwed Husbands was released in August 2023, and published in the U.S. by Leapfrog Press and by Can of Worms Enterprises in the U.K.

For more about Molly, visit her website and follow her on Facebook.

In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about longevity as an author: how to keep the creative spark alive and strong.