about rosie
A freelance writer, author, speaker, and teacher, Rosie Molinary, MFA, had earlier careers as a high school teacher, coach, and college administrator. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in various literary magazines and books. She has contributed to various magazines and web-sites including Teen Vogue, Latina, Skirt!, Women's Health, Health, Lifetimetv.com, NC Signature, Our State, Philanthropy Journal, and Charlotte Medical News. Hijas Americanas, her book on Latina body image in America, was published by Seal Press in June 2007. In addition to writing, she teaches a course on body image for the women's studies department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and speaks on body image, diversity, self-awareness, social justice and writing around the country.
In her free time, she paints, runs and bikes, obsesses over NFL football, and works on social justice issues in her community. She helped found HAMMERS, a non-profit initiative to provide emergency home repair for low income families in her community, and Circle de Luz, a non-profit program that provides mentoring, programming and scholarship support to young Latinas. Rosie lives in North Carolina.
Read the Hijas Americanas blog.
