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The Biological Clock: Balancing Marriage, Motherhood, and Career

The Biological Clock: Balancing Marriage, Motherhood and Career, for which she interviewed more than one hundred women about their struggles to decide whether or not to have a baby as time ran out, and also describes her own quest to have a second child.

Recovering Myself: A Memoir in Poetry

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Recovering Myself: A Memoir in Poetry, which details her journey to sobriety—becoming a woman who no longer goes through life with a bottle in one hand and a man in the other, who is not empty inside and has no need to escape reality. A few poems from the book are on this page, along with readers’ reactions.

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(c) 2019

Behind Their Backs: A Novel

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Behind Their Backs: A Novel, available in Kindle and in paperback, is the story of two suburban couples in 1955 Philadelphia whose lives become darkly intertwined. Told from each of their four perspectives, it’s a richly psychological account of adultery, alcoholism, domestic violence, and, ultimately, redemption.

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(c) 2026

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Dear Miss Terranova: Correspondence Between a Father and Daughter at College, 1963–1966

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Dear Miss Terranova: Correspondence Between a Father and Daughter at College, 1963–1966, available in Kindle and in paperback, documents Molly’s unique relationship with her father, which developed partly because she was an only child who arrived late in his life, partly because of his heart condition that made her grow closer to him, and partly because of that indefinable quality, chemistry.

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(c) 2026

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Disobedient Memories: My Hidden Childhood Revealed

Disobedient Memories: My Hidden Childhood Revealed, forthcoming in June on Kindle and in paperback, a memoir in which Molly revisits her childhood through the lens of her mother’s letters and diaries, which often indicate a reality divergent from her own memories. It reveals a childhood shaped by anxiety and her mother’s desire to control her, often through corporal punishment.

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(c) 2026

© 2026 by Molly McKaughan. 

On April 29, 1995, I had my last drink. It was not a momentous occasion, and I didn't even drink that much that night, but in my head was a little voice saying, over and over: "Can I have more? Can I have more?" Even as I talked to a good friend, booze had me by the throat. On June 10th of that year I walked into my first AA meeting and found people of my own kind. People talked about alcohol in a way I understood and had never shared with another living soul. It was the first day of a journey of discovery, of connections, of pain, and through it all, I have not had to disappear down a bottle of booze. This book tells that journey in poetry.

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