Molly Bolton's work is at the intersection of poetry, presence, and liberation. 

She is the author of What Blooms in the Dark, a collection of poems selected by Marie Howe as The 2024 Poets Corner Chapbook Contest winner. Her writing appears in Susurrus Magazine, Whale Road Review, and Hippocampus among others. 

Molly holds a Master of Divinity from Wake Forest School of Divinity and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction from San Francisco Theological Seminary. She is ordained by the United Church of Christ and served as a staff chaplain at Cleveland Clinic for six years. 

Molly now spends their time accompanying folks towards liberative frameworks of spirituality through writing, spiritual direction, and facilitation. They write weekly for Liturgy that Matters, a project of enfleshed.

Molly lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with their spouse, their child, their cat, and the most salamander species in the world.