Mollie Smith Waters

Mollie has been an English teacher for 24 years; she has taught at both the high school and collegiate levels. She has written non-fiction work for many publications, including Alabama Heritage, Encyclopedia of Alabama, The Montgomery Advertiser, The Greenville Standard, The Greenville Advocate, The Community College Humanities Association Journal, Bookaholic, Alabama Writer’s Forum, and Southern Literary Review. Her fiction works have been published in Southern Women’s Review, PorchScene, and Alabama Writers Cooperative. She has written two one-act plays, “The Proposal” and “First Date,” which were performed by the Greenville Community Theater in 2019. She has presented at education, literature, and history conferences in Boston, Dallas, Tampa, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Auburn (Alabama). She does medieval reenacting as “Mistress Mollie & Her Musings,” and she portrays a 1810s massacre survivor named Mary Ray Ogly, who lived in Greenville, Alabama. Waters is working on her first fictional novel, tentatively titled “The Widow of Castle Morgan,” a Civil War-era tale set at a prisoner of war camp in Cahaba, Alabama.