Molly Templeton did not grow up wanting to be a writer because she lived in a very small town and did not really understand that writers were not all already dead.
(She wanted to be Madonna, which was clearly a reasonable and attainable goal.) But she has been writing for print publications since the Fern Ridge Middle School school newsletter all the same.
After graduating from NYU's Gallatin School, she found a job in publishing, working in children's books at Penguin (then not part of Random House) and Farrar, Straus and Giroux (then not part of Macmillan). She worked at least five different jobs at the Eugene Weekly, winding up the arts and music editor for several years (and winning several Society of Professional Journalists awards in the process), then returned to New York, where she became a bookseller and events director at WORD Bookstores.
In 2015, Molly joined the staff at Reactor (then called Tor.com). She foolishly left to work as a publicist for a time, but returned as one of the site's news writers. Now, Molly writes news posts, reviews, and a column called Mark As Read for Reactor. She has also written for Buzzfeed, Salon, and Esquire.