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Molly Brodak

Biography

Molly Brodak

Molly Brodak is from Michigan and currently lives in Georgia. Her poems have recently appeared in Field, Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter and Colorado Review. Her first book of poetry, A LITTLE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, won the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize.

Molly Brodak

Books by Molly Brodak

by Molly Brodak - Memoir, Nonfiction

In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was 13 years old, her father robbed 11 banks, until the police finally caught up with him while he was sitting at a bar drinking beer, a bag of stolen money plainly visible in the backseat of his parked car. Dubbed the “Mario Brothers Bandit” by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was released, only to rob another bank several years later and end up back behind bars. In her debut memoir, BANDIT, Molly Brodak recounts her childhood and attempts to make sense of her complicated relationship with her father, a man she only half knew.