Molly Elkin is a partner in the law firm Woodley & McGillivary in Washington, DC, where she represents unions and employees in class actions, civil rights cases, First Amendment cases, and multi-plaintiff wage and hour litigation. She is a 1990 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin and earned her JD at The George Washington University in 1993. She was introduced to PEN/Faulkner in 1994 when her father, novelist Stanley Elkin (a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award) was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. She lives in DC with her husband Ivan Wasserman and their three daughters.