Szilvia Molnar

Szilvia Molnar is a writer born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1984 and raised in southern Sweden after her family emigrated there around 1989. She has worked for nearly two decades in publishing, most recently as foreign rights director at the literary agency Sterling Lord Literistic, and now lives in Austin, Texas.

She is the author of the chapbook Soft Split (Future Tense Books) and the novel The Nursery (Pantheon Books, 2023), a debut about a new mother's postpartum depression that was praised in The New York Times; the novel has also been published abroad under other titles, including the French edition Milk-bar (Actes Sud, 2024).