Emerson College recently named Jenny Molberg editor in chief of Ploughshares, the celebrated quarterly journal that has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, for more than fifty years. Molberg, the author of the poetry collection The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), joins Ploughshares after a decade at the University of Central Missouri, where she served as editor in chief of Pleiades and director of Pleiades Press while teaching English and creative writing. In her new appointment, Molberg will both edit Ploughshares and work as a professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College. Molberg spoke about her plans for the journal and her belief that literature can heal the world. {read}