Molly Messick grew up on radio and blueberries. Before Columbia, she worked at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Talk of the Nation. She also spent two years reading manuscripts and assisting authors at Little, Brown and Company. Her work has appeared on PRI's The World, as well as in the Village Voice and the Daily News. She graduated from Brown University in 2003, and begins her radio career at The Bryant Park Project this summer.