Molly Bendall is the author of three collections of poetry, After Estrangement (Peregrine Smith, 1992), Dark Summer (Miami University Press, 1999, and Ariadne's Island (Miami University Press, 2001). Her new collection Under the Quick is forthcoming from Parlor Press, 2009.

Her poems, reviews, and translations of the French surrealist poet Joyce Mansour have appeared in Paris Review, Field, Poetry, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Pool and many other journals.

She has received the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry Magazine, the Lynda Hull Poetry Award from Denver Quarterly and two Pushcart Prizes. Her poems have appeared in anthologies: American Hybrid: The Norton Anthology of the New Poem, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry, 2007, and The New American Poets.

She has also co-authored with poet Gail Wronsky two collections of "Cowgirl" poetry. She teaches at the University of Southern California.