Molly Beth Griffin

Molly Beth Griffin is the author of several acclaimed picture books including Ten Beautiful Things, Just Us, Rhoda's Rock Hunt, and The Big Leaf Leap. She has also published an award-winning YA novel, Silhouette of a Sparrow, two poetry chapbooks, and a series of beginning readers. Five more picture books are forthcoming in 2025 & 2026. Molly is a graduate of Hamline University's MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and was the recipient of the 2014 McKnight Artist Fellowship in Children's Literature.

Molly has been teaching writing for children at the Loft for 15 years. She also critiques manuscripts, speaks at schools and libraries, and hosts a monthly Picture Book Salon. She lives in South Minneapolis with her partner and their two children. For more information please visit www.mollybethgriffin.com.

Artist Blog Posts
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For the Stock
There’s a bag in my freezer full of chicken bones and odds and ends of veggies. When we dice a little more onion than we need, we toss the extra in there. We add the nubs of the carrots. Even the stems of herbs. When it’s full, we make stock. And from what? Basically a bag of garbage.
Molly Beth Griffin
Feb. 20