Molly McNett’s fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthology, as well as many literary journals. Her book of stories, One Dog Happy, was the winner of the John Simmons Award for short fiction from the University of Iowa Press.

McNett has received a fellowship to MacDowell, as well as a teaching/writing fellowship from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned her MFA.

She lives on a farm near Oregon, Illinois, with her husband, the writer Dan Libman.