“‘I have breathed the dirt and lint/Like my parents did before me,’ Molly Rice declares in these hard-eyed yet poignant poems of a mill village childhood. She has resurrected a lost world and vividly rendered it to her readers. Bravo!”

- Ron Rash

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ron-rash

"Molly Rice's voice in Mill Hill cuts through the clichés of growing up amidst both poverty and beauty. She has a steady eye and a quick turn of phrasing and syntax. That quickening, through language that knows precisely how to spin itself into poetry and when to cut the threads the poem has spun, keeps each of these poems vibrating on the page, much as I remember my grandmother's treadle sewing machine singing its rhythm of creation."

- Kathryn Stripling Byer

http://kathrynstriplingbyer.blogspot.com/

“In 'Mill Hill', poet Molly Rice recalls with great clarity, sometimes wistfully, both innocence and lost innocence, while deftly tackling the themes of family, loyalty, faith, and finally the irony and inherent ambiguity in growing up poor in a Western North Carolina industrial enclave known to the world as ‘Christmas Town, USA.’”

- Tim Peeler

http://www.hubcity.org/press/catalog/poetry/checking-out/