Hi! I’m Molly Rosen. Technically, Molly Guy is my legal name. But that’s a whole thing.

I’m a writer first — though over the years I’ve also been an editor, founder, teacher, entrepreneur, creative strategist, and, very weirdly, a wedding dress and engagement ring designer. For more than twenty years, I’ve moved through media, fashion, and rooms full of women at moments of rupture and reinvention: as an editor at Nylon, Domino, and Vogue; as the founder of Stone Fox Bride; and as the founder of Brooklyn Writers Collective, an international storytelling platform supporting women through loss, transformation, and creative rebirth.

I’m drawn to people who live rigorously honest lives, and who aren’t afraid to be messy.

I’ve written essays for The Cut on pain, power, personal style, and the relationships that shape us. Sometimes I make silly videos about the insanity of single motherhood. One truth keeps surfacing: nothing ever stays the same, no matter how carefully we curate it.

It’s taken me almost fifty years to realize there is no there there — no clean origin story, no single core wound, no defining trauma followed by healing and a resolution. Our desires, fears, and ambitions are messy accumulations—contradictory and recursive, often driven by longing, impulse, and bad timing. Honest reflection is messy as fuck, and the deeper you probe, the less you resolve. There is only a series of thresholds we keep crossing—sometimes gracefully, sometimes sideways—with varying degrees of self-awareness.

The Stone Flux is a newsletter of interviews, essays, reflections, and conversations with creative people that honor complexity, ambivalence, and movement. If you feel perpetually mid-chapter—and suspect that might actually be the point—you’re in the right place.