Molly Rice has held several residencies teaching poetry, film, storytelling, theatre, and ESL in hundreds of schools, colleges, and organizations in NC, United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia, and Hungary. While living in Ireland, she wrote and directed over thirty original plays and became a Pushkin Trust Artist for the Duchess of Abercorn.  She wrote a teacher’s manual entitled Exploring the Lough – Creative Activities for the Primary School Classroom and was included in round the Lough, Lough Views, Shore Lines, and Sea & Shore children’s books.  She has been published in various webzines and magazines including Poetry Super Highway, Fortnight Magazine, The Stinging Fly, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and forthcoming in the spring issue of Iodine Poetry Journal.  She was a contributor to a major anthology of poetry and art entitled, A Conversation Piece edited by Adrian Rice & Angela Reid (Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland).  She was recently published in Voices and Vision: A Collection of Writings By and About Empowered Women published by the Women’s Resource Center of Hickory and The Best of Poetry Hickory edited by Scott Owens.  Molly is currently a theatre teacher/director of the Tractor Shed Theatre and editor of the literary magazine “Indian Ink” at St. Stephens High School (SSHS).  In her five years at SSHS, she was chosen as SSHS’ Wachovia Teacher of the Year, made a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction, chosen as “Outstanding Director” North Carolina Theatre Conference 2009 & 2010, Teacher of the Year 2010, and won $30,000 in technology for her classroom for the winning music video in the eInstruction’s Classroom Makeover contest.  She is the district coordinator for the National Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest.  Molly currently resides in Hickory, North Carolina with her husband Irish poet, Adrian Rice and their toddling son Micah Wayne Freeman Rice.