——Molly Wadzeck Kraus is a New York-based journalist and essayist covering culture, reproductive rights, parenting, and mental health.
About Molly
Molly Wadzeck Kraus is a Texas-raised, New York-based journalist and essayist whose work explores culture, motherhood, grief, and mental illness.
Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Scary Mommy, and more. Her Editor’s Choice Award creative nonfiction, an account of navigating treatment for a mental health crisis, was nominated for a Best of the Net award in 2022. Her reporting on reproductive rights & culture has been featured in Romper, Rewire News Group, Yahoo Life, The Progressive, The Public, and in various newsletters and podcasts.
In her former life, she rescued animals for a living, first on a farm animal sanctuary, then as the manager of a no-kill shelter and adoption center. She lives in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York with her three children. When not writing or reading, she can be found tangled in aerial silks pretending she’s a circus star, conducting important research binge-watching Bravo, and enjoying the 1000 miles of hiking trails surrounding her Stars Hallow-esque Village.
She is currently seeking representation for her memoir-in-progress about mental illness, animal rescue, and motherhood.
“I like to throw out the grammar. Start from the end, sometimes the middle, oftentimes a nearly unrelated metaphor. But never the beginning. The sequential order is boring.”
—Up in the Air, Write or Die Magazine
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Memoir
Molly is working on a memoir that weaves together her experiences in animal rescue, love, and loss, set against the backdrop of a family history marked by substance abuse and bipolar disorder.
What happens when you stop running and start building a life from scraps, forced to face the inherited turmoil of your family history? Neither villain nor victim, Molly seeks to make peace with the wreckage left by her denial.
Her forthcoming memoir is for anyone touched by mental illness and addiction; for those longing for consistency and stability, searching for a place to feel wanted, and confusing being needed with demonstrating love. It's for everyone who has run away, only to discover that home can be whatever you decide it is. For anyone who has found imposter syndrome worthless and realized that faking it until you make it can get you anywhere.
