Molly Antopol (born February 26, 1978) is an American professor and author, writing both fiction and nonfiction.

Antopol was born in Culver City, California, to a family with an Eastern European Jewish history.

[citation needed] The New York Times compared Antopol's work favorably to Grace Paley and Allegra Goodman.

[6] On NPR, author Meg Wolitzer commented that Antopol's work will "make you nostalgic, not just for earlier times, but for another era in short fiction.

A time when writers such as Bernard Malamud, and Issac Bashevis Singer and Grace Paley roamed the earth.