Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth: A Memoir by Molly McCloy

In this show, Molly Mcloy discusses her richly creative, funny and at times heart-wrenching memoir, Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth published by Red Hen Press and Winner of the Quill Queer Prose Prize. At times funny at times painful, Molly McCloy will share the nine childhood moments that almost broke her and the process she drew upon to share them. She will discuss the letter she wrote at age twenty-two asking her father for apologies, and her father’s surprising response. Side by side with heartbreaking moments, she draws upon humor to cope and queerness as a source of joy. Her book is a gift.

Molly McCloy is a four-time Moth Story SLAM winner and Lambda Literary Fellow. She won the 2023 Book Pipeline “Unpublished” contest for nonfiction. Her work has been featured in O magazine, excerpted in the Blue Mesa Review and Foglifter, and broadcast on The Best of Risk! podcast. She earned an MFA from The New School and teaches writing for the awesome students of Pima Community College. Reveling in the bright sunshine of a joy she once thought impossible, Molly lives in Tucson with her wife Rebecca and their dog, Princess Pinwheels of the Purple Mountains.