Raised in Colorado in a working class family, Molly Sturdevant’s sense of place and of economic realities have been at the heart of her prose and poetry since her late teens. Most recently, her publications have appeared in Orion Magazine, The Dark Mountain Project, Crab Creek Review, Poetry Northwest, About Place Journal, and elsewhere. Nominated for a Best of the Net and a Pushcart, she is recognized as a Western Federation of Miners Union Scholar, and taught history of philosophy for a decade before becoming a full-time writer and editor. Her debut novel features a true story, researched intensively in mining union archives and built on the ephemera that real people left behind in Colorado libraries, archives, and museums. For Sturdevant, writing historical fiction is nothing short of building a portal into the extraordinary lives of those whom history usually overlooks. Her work has been supported by residences at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, in Blue River, Oregon, The American Conference of Irish Studies, and Elsewhere Studios, in Paonia, Colorado. She currently lives in the Midwest, is a parent working full-time, and working on a second novel.
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Molly’s The Sleepers in 2026.
