Molly MacRae spent twenty years in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Upper East Tennessee.
She was the curator of the history museum in Jonesborough, Tennessee’s oldest town, and later managed
The Book Place, an independent bookstore; may it rest in peace. Her stories have appeared in Alfred
Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she is a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction.
These days, MacRae lives with her family in Champaign, Illinois, where she pushes books on children at the
public library.
Awards and Bibliography
Awards
2000 Sherwood Anderson Award for short fiction for "More or Less"
2001 Virginia Highlands Creative Writing Contest, first prize for novel, Wilder Rumors
Short Stories
"My Trouble," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (AHMM) January 1990
"Speaking Terms," AHMM, April 1991
"No Can Do," AHMM, July/August 2001
"Missing Something," AHMM, May 2000
"Ah, Paradise," AHMM, November 2000
"It Takes Two," AHMM, February 2002
"Fandango by Flashlight," AHMM, December 2005
“Practically Perfect,” Doses of Death, Lulu, 2005
"Wilder Dancing,” Mysterical-E, Summer 2007
"A Walk in the Park," Hardluck Stories, Summer 2007
Novel
Wilder Rumors, Five Star Mysteries, May 2007
Nonfiction
Humor, Rumor, and Romance in Old Jonesborough, Overmountain Press, 1991 (editor)
"Book Pusher: My Life in and out of Fiction," Mystery Readers Journal, Fall 2005
"Wilder Rumors," an essay in the "New Books" section of Mystery Scene, issue 100, 2007
Mystery Theater
Interactive dinner plays available through Positive Solutions Through Stories and Tours
"The Dead of Winter Murder Mystery"
"Daggers and Old Lace"
"Murder in Little Chicago"