Molly Wadzeck is a New York–based journalist and essayist covering culture, parenting, reproductive rights, and mental health — and co-host of The Women’s Current, an intergenerational podcast amplifying women’s voices.
About Molly
Molly Wadzeck is a Texas-raised, New York-based journalist and essayist whose work explores culture, motherhood, and mental illness.
Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Scary Mommy, and more. Her Editor’s Choice Award creative nonfiction, an account of navigating treatment for a mental health crisis, was nominated for a Best of the Net award in 2022. Her reporting on reproductive rights & culture has been featured in Romper, Rewire News Group, Yahoo Life, The Progressive, The Public, and in various newsletters and podcasts.
In her former life, she rescued animals for a living, first on a farm animal sanctuary, then as the manager of a no-kill shelter and adoption center. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York with her three children. When not writing or reading, she can be found tangled in aerial silks pretending she’s a circus star, conducting important research binge-watching Bravo, and enjoying the 1000 miles of hiking trails surrounding her little Village.
She is currently seeking representation for her memoir-in-progress.
“I like to throw out the grammar. Start from the end, sometimes the middle, oftentimes a nearly unrelated metaphor. But never the beginning. The sequential order is boring.”
—Up in the Air, Write or Die Magazine
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Memoir
Molly is at work on a memoir that moves between her childhood—shaped by the shadows of bipolar disorder and addiction—and the restless years of her late teens and early twenties. After leaving college under the weight of depression and an eating disorder, she moved to New York in search of reinvention. Her father’s sudden death marked a fault line, sending her into a restless search for meaning that wound through animal rescue, odd gig jobs, fleeting relationships, and the blur of recklessness and clarity that defined her early twenties.
Her forthcoming memoir is for anyone touched by mental illness or addiction; for those who have longed for stability, mistaken being needed for being loved, or run away only to discover that home is what you choose to make it. It speaks to anyone who has struggled with self-doubt yet found that “faking it until you make it” is sometimes the only way forward. Ultimately, it is a story about love, loss, resilience, and the messy, transformative path to becoming oneself.
