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Molly Olguín
@mollyolguin.bsky.social
Writer, educator, crow friend. THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD - out with Red Hen Press in April 2025. Preorder now!

www.mollyolguin.com
Sinners
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (which I swear would be on my list even if it weren't on the last list!)
Godzilla (1954)
Crimson Peak
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
The Shining
Re-Animator
Get Out
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Alien
It Follows
Nosferatu (1922)
Don't Look Now
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Sometimes I'm afraid to reread my older published writing, but you know what? This holds the fuck up. Happy Bisexuality Day from me in 2017. www.autostraddle.com/young-adult-...
How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation
I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.
www.autostraddle.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Things about mainstream publishing I wish more people knew:

1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period.

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June 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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HI GUYS, the @mollyolguin.bsky.social summer tour is on!
June 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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"She wanted to touch the girl—wanted to be the girl—wanted, fiercely and entirely, to enter the world where the girl lived."

Today's queer story is "Foam on the Waves" by @mollyolguin.bsky.social!
theorangebee.substack.com/p/foam-on-th...
Foam on the waves
Issue one: short story by Molly Olguín
theorangebee.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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This is a belated post about how cool it was to attend @mollyolguin.bsky.social’s book launch in Seattle a few weeks back! She’s got a few dates in the Midwest, East Coast, and LA in the summer months, and a virtual launch coming up next week! Don’t miss out!
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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our culture is corrosive to queer history - itll efface it and rewrite it at every turn. we gotta know what happened and tell each other about it

those silly little guys in their dorky costumes were a revolution and the world tried to make them a joke, then stole them from us as soon as they could
April 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My preorder of @mollyolguin.bsky.social’s The Sea Gives Up the Dead arrived (early!) with the flowers. I love this beautiful, dark book. A bright spot, a joy. 🌺 ❤️‍🔥
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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My contributor interview about my queer mill worker story in @coloradoreview.bsky.social is up! We talk about trying out historical fiction as a genre, my obsession with Maine’s old mills, and non-traditional communities! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2025/04/a-co...
A Conversation with Rebecca Turkewitz - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University
Rebecca Turkewitz discusses queerness, nontraditional communities, life in 1850s textile mills and boarding houses, and her first foray into historical fiction featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Col...
coloradoreview.colostate.edu
April 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Thank you so much for including The Sea Gives Up the Dead 💙
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Since this is certainly getting edited out, I can reveal that @mollyolguin.bsky.social and I just wrote an entire novel where her character correctly refers to a character named Maurice, while my character refers to the same guy as Morris, and no one ever notices and nothing ever comes of it.
March 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The amount of young people who became writers because of Michelle Trachtenberg and Harriet the Spy is way higher than you'd think
February 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Surprise! @mollyolguin.bsky.social has a book coming out, and Jane has a conundrum. In this bonus episode, you can listen to a sneak peek of Molly’s forthcoming short story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead and then catch up with Jane. It’s a one-off smorgasbord, baby! Get it while it’s hot!
Bonus Episode! Meditations in an Emergency
The Pasithea Powder · Episode
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February 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Rewatched 1917 tonight and I will never know how anyone will ever be able to take in any (re)presentation of this era as anything other than antiwar, but also people will always see what they want to see, and that's what built The Pasithea Powder.
February 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Today I taught two of my favorite poems from Gary Jackson's book "Missing You Metropolis," and got to have a fantastic conversation about marginalization and monstrosity in metaphor. What makes a mutant (or a person) a monster? What does it mean to forget who you are?
February 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?” 💙💙💙
February 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
It's wintry in Seattle today, and I just saw a gull flying through the snowy trees. Gulls do belong in Seattle, but they don't belong in the snow, so it was weird to see, but also aesthetically seeing the white bird in the white trees under a white sky was satisfying. Discordant but beautiful.
February 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Last week I checked my spam filter for the first time in, like, seven years? And in the spam folder, two pages back, was an ACTUALLY IMPORTANT EMAIL. This haunts me to my core. What else have I missed????
February 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM