Molly Fisk is the author of the poetry collections The More Difficult Beauty, Listening to Winter (#4 in the California Poetry Series), Terrain (coauthor), and Salt Water Poems (letterpress), as well as five collections of radio commentary. She's the Inaugural Poet Laureate Emerita of Nevada County, California, where she edited California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She's also won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She lives in Nevada City, California.

"Fisk transports us to the wagon ride and rustic cabin, the vistas, the fields, the dust, the shy glances of young love... we see ourselves in them thanks to Fisk’s extraordinary gift for creating compelling narrative and vivid imagery." —Erin C. Murphy, poet and professor at Penn State"A triumph of the text is how it brings 'separate understandings / to work together' and 'spins and thinks of circles' in order to relate personal discovery with the rhythms of the natural world. As tracks, cycles, and rhythms converge, the text quietly complicates the ethos of frontier expansion, even as it indulges a more straightforward sense of progress; it’s a pattern of tracks that’s briefly broken by a single bootheel among 'some late-blooming Indian paintbrush' on the far side of the creek that runs through the Imlays’ property—a quiet nod to the forced displacement of Native Americans."—Kirkus Review“This is a story we may have thought familiar, following a young homesteading couple through the first year of their marriage. But told with the intensity and rhythms of poetry, this familiar story becomes something altogether fresh—a place and time and way of being that, despite the distance from us, feels alive to its very bones. In these few lines, Molly Fisk reminds us what poetry can do, put to the service of Story.”—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses and The Jump-Off Creek"A sensuous, mesmerizing narrative of two newlywed pioneers in the California foothills . . . the story is page-turning, gripping; as poetry, the lines are sensuous, attentive, gritty, and engrossing. . . . a stunner to reread, read aloud, and share."—Julia Park Tracey, Alameda Poet Laureate Emerita, Amaryllis: Collected Poems