Molly Rose Quinn

Molly Rose Quinn is a writer and nonprofit administrator. Before coming to OUTMemphis, she led literary and other cultural programing at a variety of New York City nonprofit organizations, including as the Director of Public Programming at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, a cultural venue that supports Housing Works, Inc., NYC’s largest service provider to New Yorkers experiences the dual crises of homelessness and HIV/AIDS. In 2017, she returned to Memphis, TN, her hometown, to co-found the Center for Southern Literary Arts and its inaugural Memphis Literary Arts Festival, which occurred in 2018. As a writer, her essays, poetry, and profiles have appeared in a range of print and digital publications. She is a 2018 Young Cultural Innovators fellow with the Salzburg Global Seminar. She currently serves on administrator for LitNet: the Literary Network, the nation’s only advocacy coalition for public funding for literature.