1998 ★ they/them
My name is Molly and I'm a writer and artist from Canada.
I've been into coding since my Tumblr days (I'm a stereotype) and started this website in 2025.
I'm fascinated by old web, fandom, and archiving digital materials. Yarrowrow is meant to be part creative project, part exploration of these interests.
Background image: Grove of Trees by Pierre-August Renoir
I've been making up stories since I knew how to talk. I've also more recently picked up poetry as a means to process my emotions.
I love appreciating other works of art, be it spending a day in an art museum or listening to a really good album on repeat. Not big into movies or TV, at least in a consumption type of way, but there are some I always come back to.
I am a huge Tolkien nerd (the books over the movies). I will engage in anything from The Lord of the Rings specifically.
I believe that the LGBTQ community owes everything to our trans siblings, especially our Black trans siblings. They show us the true path to queer liberation.
I am very pro-labour movements, but I won't talk about work here. I never have been motivated by money/career and never will be. But if you think about the language surrounding parts of this website, maybe you can guess what field I'm in.
I will listen to basically anything, but I do have a lot of consistent favourite artists.
My taste tends to skew more recent/current, since I came of age in like the mid 2010s (think Blonde and DAMN.) I'm not against older music, I'm just not super interested in it at the moment. Everything is a product of its time, and when it comes to the art form of music, I guess I just prefer to hear echoes the present day, or near it.
Elsewhere on my website, you can find my log of albums that I've listened to. I decided to start it this year in an effort to a) listen to more complete bodies of work and b) have an archive that I can look back on to identify patterns, reflect on what stuck or didn't stick, etc.
There are several poets who I consider as the most influential to me, both in my life and as an artist myself. These are Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, and T.S. Eliot. I also love the work of Richard Siken, Louise Glück, Sappho, Rumi, and Thomas Hardy.
The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book of all time. I'm counting it as one book, but if I had to choose, I would probably pick The Two Towers as my favourite of the three.
Other authors I love are Jeannette Winterson, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Hanif Abdurraquib, Susanna Clarke, Catherynne M. Valente, Marlowe Granados, Carmen Maria Machado, William Shakespeare, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Angela Carter.
Some of my favourite visual artists are Claude Monet, Ikegami Yoriyuki, Vincent van Gogh, Anna Laura Sullivan, Edmund Dulac, Serafino Macchiati, Gustav Klimt, Frits Thaulow, Yoshitomo Nara, Alivia Horsley, Cho Giseok, and more.
My favourite pieces include virtually all of Monet's Waterlilies series, van Gogh's Still life with a plate of onions, virtually all of Yoriyuki's work, Macchiati's L’avertissement, Edvard Munch's The Sun, and John Longstaff's The Sirens.