Orange Salon with Molly Olguín

Come along to our July Salon with guest salonniere, Molly Olguín

In the first issue of The Orange & Bee, we featured the short story ‘Foam on the waves’ by Molly Olguín. We are thrilled to invite her back for the Orange Salon, part of the content for Issue six. We will be discussing all things fairy tale as well as her debut collection The sea gives up the dead, which was released earlier this year by Red Hen Press.

The Orange Salon will be held this Saturday, July 12 at 10 am AEST (Friday, July 11 at 5 pm PDT). The salon will include a reading by Molly and a Q&A session with the audience. The Orange Salons are only accessible to our paid subscribers. A Zoom link will be posted two hours before the salon begins. We hope to see you there! — Carina & Nike

Molly Olguín (the “guí” sound is the same one as in “guillotine”) is a queer writer and educator based in Seattle. She holds a BA in English from Williams College and an MFA in Fiction from The Ohio State University. She teaches English and creative writing to high school students.

Her collection The Sea Gives Up The Dead was the winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, and is out now with Red Hen Press. Her short stories have appeared in The Orange & Bee, Paranoid Tree, Redivider, The Normal School, River Styx, Quarterly West, and others. She is a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow, and was a recipient of the Loft Mentor Series fellowship in 2019. She was awarded the 2015 AWP Intro Awards Prize in Fiction for her short story ‘Seven Deaths’. With Jackie Hedeman, she is the creator of the queer sci fi audio drama The Pasithea Powder.

She loves small cats, crows, and monsters of all kinds.