2026 Edith Wharton
Writer-in-Residence
Writer
Molly Lanzarotta won the London Independent Story Prize for flash fiction in 2024. She received second prize for The Moth Nature Writing Prize in 2023 and has been a finalist for other awards including the Joy Harjo Prize and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry.
Her short stories, flash fiction, and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including The Rumpus, The Notre Dame Review, The Irish Times, Seisma Magazine, Columbia Journal, About Place Journal, Terrain, Cimarron Review, Carolina Quarterly, Southeast Review and anthologies for the LISP Prize, the Lascaux Prize, and the Bath Flash Fiction Prize.
Grateful for support
Molly has received support for her writing from the Straw Dog Writers Guild, the city of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and through residencies with the Edith Wharton Writers-in Residence Project, Millay Arts, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium, and Noepe Center for Literary Arts.