About the Author
MOLLY DWYER has been a transformational educator for more than fifteen years, teaching English composition, creative writing, and literature classes in community colleges and facilitating workshops, both privately and in college communities. In 1988 Molly earned a Special Major Masters in English through the Hutchins School at Sonoma State University for her study of the writing process.
In 2002 she completed a PhD under the guidance of cosmologist Brian Swimme at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Molly worked for three years with social change activist, Will Keepin, as the Co-Director of Satyana Institute’s Gender 
Reconciliation Project in Boulder, CO and is a co-author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (with Dr. Keepin and Cynthia Brix), released by Hohm Press, fall 2007.
Molly brings a broad, interdisciplinary background to her work. Her first fiction writing class was in the 70s at UC Berkeley with the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. She trained with the National Writing Project, studied fiction writing with Trinity professor Gerald Dawe and poet Eavan Boland in a summer program at Galway University, Ireland, and literature in an Oxford University summer program where she wrote a paper on Percy Bysshe Shelley that received an A+. That same summer (2004), Molly studied novel writing with England’s Arvon Project, tutored by British novelists Joanna Briscoe and Charlotte Mendelson.
Molly received the 1999 Vickers Award from the International Society for the Systems Sciences for her paper, The Emergent Feminine: The Role of the Feminine in the Evolution of the Universe.
Her award-winning novel, Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, is based on the life of Mary Shelley. Since it's completion in 2004, it has won the following awards:
- Historical Fiction Award, 2008/09. Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group.
- Finalist, 2007 Adult Fiction, San Francisco Writers Conference.
- Significant Potential, 2007 Chief Al Nedler Prize, San Francisco,
- Honorable Mention, 2004 Fiction, Mendocino Writers Conference.
Molly is currently working on the second book in her three-book series on the Romantics: The Appassionata, named after Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, op. 57, is set in 19th century Paris and traces the lives of composer Louise Farrenc and her daughter, pianist Victorine Farrenc. Both were contemporaries of Chopin, Liszt and Berlioz, who figure largely in the story, as does the painter Delacroix. The Appassionata also portrays the legendary writers George Sand and Victor Hugo, among others, and revisits the life of Mary Shelley who makes a cameo appearance, as she did in life, spending time in Paris where a theatrical version of Frankenstein was a big hit.
When Molly's not writing or attending to the business of being alive, she can usually be found playing with her two Maine Coon cats (Pele and Selene) or playing piano (she's studying classical music), or curled up with a good book, or walking the headlands of the Mendocino, California coast where she lives.