BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2008 – 2009

Molly Peacock

For a biography of Mary Granville Delany

Molly Peacock has published six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems, and a memoir, Paradise Piece by Piece, and is the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge.” Her poems are widely anthologized, appearing in The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She edited The Private I: Privacy in a Public World, and her essay about Mary Granville Delany, “Passion Flowers in Winter,” appears in The Best American Essays 2007. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Writing at Spalding University. As a Leon Levy fellow, Peacock worked on an impressionistic biography of the late-life artistic coming-of-age of Mrs. Mary Granville Delany, the 18th-century cut-paper botanical artist, published by Bloomsbury in 2010 as The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72.