Molly Rosen is a writer, teacher, and entrepreneur who lives in Woodstock, New York, with her two daughters. She is an Adjunct Professor in Columbia University’s Nonfiction MFA Program and a Contributing Editor at The Cut, where she writes first-person essays that braid cultural criticism with intimate personal narrative. She is the founder of Brooklyn Writers Collective, an international creative incubator where she helps writers and artists shape essays, stories, books, and brands that reflect the depth and complexity of their personal lives.Molly is also the founder of Stone Fox Bride, the first anti-bridezilla wedding showroom in New York City, which became known for its irreverent, feminist approach to weddings, marriage, and love. Work born in BWC workshops has appeared in The New York Times, The Moth, The Rumpus, Vogue, and New York Magazine, and gone on to be published by Random House, Metropolitan, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster — with New York Times bestsellers among them.

A longtime magazine editor, Molly has held editorial roles at Nylon, Red, Jane, Vogue, Domino, Dossier nd YM. Her first book, Love, Lust & Weddings for the Wild at Heart, was published by Random House in 2018. She also hosts a Substack interview series exploring how cultural figures design lives that sustain creative risk, zeitgest-driven evolution, and imagination. 

Molly graduated from Brown University and earned an MFA in Fiction from The New School. Her forthcoming memoir, You Never Wanted To Hurt Me, chronicles her move upstate after the loss of both her marriage and father, exploring sexuality and single motherhood in a post-#MeToo world.