CC Molaison

CC Molaison is a fiction author from New Orleans. Her stories, published by Witness Magazine, Another Chicago, and Stranger’s Guide, have been nominated for a Pushcart, Best of the Net, and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Award. She has received support from the Newcomb Institute at Tulane University and attended residencies at a Studio in the Woods, the Peter Bullough Foundation, and Vashon Artist Residency.
Her writing combines literary realism with experimental forms, such as footnotes. The effects of the climate crisis, gentrification, and a lack of federal support is straining the cultural identity of New Orleans. Realism allows fictional traces to be left of the lived experience, and the experimental forms drawn from represent the elusivity of the wetlands. A swamp is not solid ground. A swamp is, rather, exactly the opposite: the location of water and land both. The characters in her fiction see the duality they stand on in all aspects of their lives. The local geography’s murkiness and radiance, the regional hospitality and inhumanity, and the sociability and poverty of the city all animate her work.