Molly Dektar

Molly Dektar is the author of The Ash Family and The Absolutes: A Novel, out July 11 from Mariner Books. A graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, she is the recipient of the Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, N+1, Fence, the Harvard Review, and the Sewanee Review. She lives in Queens.

Beyond Tropes: On Writing Straight Characters While Queer

Molly Dektar Explores the Art of Crafting an Ambiguous Narrative

July 10, 2023 By Molly Dektar

A Cult Can Be You and Your Weird Charismatic Friend

How Cult Logic Appears in Businesses, Families, Political Movements, Friendships

April 17, 2019 By Molly Dektar

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