Molly Bendall is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including Watchful and Under the Quick. She teaches English and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

"I’m immediately struck by such a wonderful tension of lyric tautness and nimble movement, the quicks and quirks of California poet and translator Molly Bendall’s latest full-length title, Turncoat. . . Bendall writes a kind of epic, offering sharp and stunning threads of unease and upheaval, writing an undercurrent of tension and uncertainty, and building up the potential for conflict through the complexity of simply living in a world increasingly hostile, pervasive and surveilled. Hers is a syntax simultaneously quick on its feet and meditative, slow across lines that are somehow propulsive."

Molly Bendall is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including Watchful and Under the Quick. She teaches English and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

"I’m immediately struck by such a wonderful tension of lyric tautness and nimble movement, the quicks and quirks of California poet and translator Molly Bendall’s latest full-length title, Turncoat. . . Bendall writes a kind of epic, offering sharp and stunning threads of unease and upheaval, writing an undercurrent of tension and uncertainty, and building up the potential for conflict through the complexity of simply living in a world increasingly hostile, pervasive and surveilled. Hers is a syntax simultaneously quick on its feet and meditative, slow across lines that are somehow propulsive."

Molly Bendall is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including Watchful and Under the Quick. She teaches English and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

"I’m immediately struck by such a wonderful tension of lyric tautness and nimble movement, the quicks and quirks of California poet and translator Molly Bendall’s latest full-length title, Turncoat. . . Bendall writes a kind of epic, offering sharp and stunning threads of unease and upheaval, writing an undercurrent of tension and uncertainty, and building up the potential for conflict through the complexity of simply living in a world increasingly hostile, pervasive and surveilled. Hers is a syntax simultaneously quick on its feet and meditative, slow across lines that are somehow propulsive."