Molly Rideout is a writer and social practice artist and the Executive Director of Grin City Collective. She was a 2016 Antenna artist-in-residence (New Orleans), and a commissioned writer for Wormfarm’s Farm/Art DTour (Wisconsin). In 2014 her visual art/fiction piece "Due Date" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her writing is installed in Iowa’s Cedar Rapids, Grinnell, Newton and Toledo Public Libraries. Other publications include: Prairie Gold: An Anthology of America’s Heartland, Front Porch Journal, Wapsipinicon Almanac, Bluestem, Marathon Lit Review and Embodied Effigies.