Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland.
Her novel
The Jump-Off Creek
was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In 1996 Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award.
The Dazzle of Day
was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize.
Wild Life
won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and was chosen as the 2002 selection for "If All Seattle Read the Same Book."
“I rate highly any woman who will freely swear and say the word "stink," but on this occasion I would rather have had a woman with an appreciation for ancient relics and mysterious rooms hidden in the deeps of forbidding caves.”
Molly Gloss
“I woke thinking: Is it possible that, after all, I am to go on living with the wild beasts while in the greater world others are out the peaks of the Himalayas, the dark heart of Arabia, and the secrets of the Poles--while in the civilized world electricity is spread to every corner, and the flying machine is invented--while in the laboratories and academies and astronomical observatories, by telescope and spectroscope and microscope, others are to discover the minute secrets of Life and the Universe--all this while I am living ignorant as a savage in the wilderness?”
Molly Gloss