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Molly Beer

Molly Beer's travel writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Nimrod, Room, and Best Women's Travel Writing, among other publications, and has been deemed "Notable" by Best American Travel Writing. She is a former Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University. Read more about her work at www.mollybeer.net.

MotherhoodJuly 23, 2014

The Lifecycle of Butterflies

By Molly Beer

In Michoacán, the migrating mariposas appear with November, as if trailing the marigolds trucked in for Day of the Dead. They come by the fragile millions…

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Features, UncategorizedNovember 18, 2013

Fire Ants

By Molly Beer

In those first months living in El Salvador, had I walked down a village street and seen young men leaning against gaping doorframes…

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FeaturesNovember 14, 2013

Writers Respond to Typhoon Haiyan

By Molly Beer

On ordinary days, this is a magazine of creative nonfiction, inspired by travel, written by women–by which we mean that Vela publishes writing that…

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Features, UncategorizedSeptember 11, 2013

That Spanish September

By Molly Beer

When I graduated from college, in the spring of 2001, it seemed to me that where I situated myself, where I’d been and wherever I went next…

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InterviewsMay 16, 2013

Interview with Vela’s Featured Writer: Amy Butcher

By Molly Beer

You and I met a little over a year ago at Colgate University, when I was the out-going Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative…

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Features, UncategorizedMay 6, 2013

Map to Motherland

By Molly Beer

This morning, Steven and I woke up late and tired because our two-year-old had been up twice in the night dreaming about scary dinosaurs…

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Books, Reviews, Women We Read This WeekApril 4, 2013

Reading Emily Rapp

By Molly Beer

To read Emily Rapp’s memoir The Still Point of the Turning World is to have that life river that you’re navigating—an eddy here, a riffle there…

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BooksMarch 18, 2013

On Packing

By Molly Beer

It is best to use a well-made bed or the floor, so long as you have a large, smooth, clear surface, a canvas, if you will.

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UncategorizedMarch 11, 2013

Featured Writer: Sidsel Overgaard

By Molly Beer

Sidsel Overgaard is a public radio journalist who has reported on topics ranging from how a once-popular pregnancy test led to the endangerment of…

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Features, UncategorizedDecember 19, 2012

The Jackass Prize

By Molly Beer

Clayton may be in possession of the only Ivy League degree between us, but he arrived in New Mexico without either a sleeping bag or hiking boots…

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The Writing LifeNovember 8, 2012

Fellowship and the Emerging Writer

By Molly Beer

Sitting in my half-packed office at Colgate, I gazed outside at the spring rain dampening the old stone buildings of that beautiful campus.

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Features, UncategorizedOctober 29, 2012

Who Made this Grave

By Molly Beer

One day, in late October, my son and I left his Mexican preschool and wandered up the Calzada toward Morelia’s pink stone aqueduct.

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