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.
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About Molly
Molly Wadzeck is a Texas-raised, New York-based journalist and essayist whose work lives at the intersection of personal truth and cultural critique. She writes about motherhood, mental health, identity, and the messy process of becoming — often blending memoir with social commentary and research.
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
Memoir
Molly's memoir follows a woman whose earliest instinct is to run—from emotional intensity, from the ordinary quiet, from her own mind. Moving through a childhood marked by her father's mental illness and addiction, and moving through her own undiagnosed bipolar disorder, addiction, unstable love, and psychiatric hospitalization, the book traces a life organized around escape: constant motion, obsession, reinvention, and fantasy as survival strategies. Braiding past and present, the narrative follows her repeated attempts to leave herself—and the slow, difficult shift toward something more dangerous: staying.
