Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss (born 1944) is an American novelist from rural Oregon whose fiction moves between historical Western settings and quietly literary science fiction. She won the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2000 for Wild Life, about a turn-of-the-century woman novelist who encounters a Bigfoot-like being while searching for a lost child in the Washington wilderness, and the Ken Kesey Award in 1990 for The Jump-Off Creek, a homesteading novel. Her science fiction novel The Dazzle of Day (1998) follows a generation ship of Quaker settlers preparing to land on a new world, and Outside the Gates (1986) is an early fantasy adventure. Gloss received a Whiting Award in 1996 and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1990, and has taught at Portland State University and Pacific University. She was a close friend of Ursula K. Le Guin.