A third-generation Albertan, Gwen McGregor was born in Edmonton, went to King Edward and Normal Practice elementary schools and Strathcona High School. In 1944, Gwen joined the Navy (WRCNS) and served at H.M.S. Cornwallis. After a B.Ed. at the University of Alberta, Gwen served two years as Regional Film Librarian at the National Film Board. In 1952 she went with her husband George Molnar to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. George stayed as a consultant at the Mayo Clinic and their children, Jane and Charles, were born in Rochester. In 1975 the Molnars returned to the University of Alberta - George as Chairman of Medicine, Gwen to earn a B.A. (Art) in 1979. Gwen has painted professionally for thirty years.

She is the author of two poetry collections for children I Said to Sam (Scholastic '87) and Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables (Beach Holme '96) and three first chapter books Summer with Sebastian, Sebastians Promise and Sebastians Collection Connection, (Hodgepog '97, '99, 2001), is a frequent contributor to Chickadee Magazine and has work in several anthologies. Her poems have been read on Morningside, animated on Fred Penner's Place, read on Sherri Lewis and included in the 1995 Sally Struther's T.V. Special - "The New Adventures of Mother Goose".

Hate Cell: A Casey Templeton Mystery, Dundurn, 2009

Sebastians Collection Connection, Hodgepog, Vancouver, 2001

Summer With Sebastian, Book Collective, (Hodgepog Imprint), Edmonton, 1997

Sebastians Promise, Book Collective, (Hodgepog Imprint), Edmonton, 1999

No Presents Please, Roussan Publishers Inc. Montreal, 2000

Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables, Beach Holme Publishers, Vancouver, 1996

I Said to Sam, Scholastic-TAB Publications Ltd., New York, Toronto, London, Auckland, Sydney, 1987

Anthologized:

Going Up? in Animals on Parade, Chirp Magazine Poetry Anthology, 2006

"Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son Scooter" and "Humpty Dumpty" in Mary Had a Little Jam, Meadowbrook Press, 2004

The Tale of the Worms in, A Vocal Invitation to Readers Theatre, UOTTER READ-IT, 2001

"People of the Deer Remembered in Anthology Walking Barefoot, Rowan Press, 2001

Going Up?, Chirp Magazine, 2000

Greater Expectations, Museline, League of Canadian Poets, Spring Issue 1997

Tale of the Worms, in Introduction to Readers Theatre Volume II, Helen Raczuk and Marilyn Smith, Lightwaves Press, Edmonton, 1997

Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Son Scooter, in New Rhymes for Playtime, Simon and Schuster, 1995

Where its At and Choices in, There Will Always be a Sky, Houghton Mifflin (Canada), 1993

Diddle, Diddle Dumpling, My Son Scooter and Humpty Dumpty in The New Adventures of Mother Goose, Meadowbrook Press, 1993

Going Up? Chickadee Magazine, January, 1990

The Lunch Bunch, Chickadee Magazine, October, 1991

Inside Out in Window of Dreams, Anthology of New Canadian Writing for Children, Methuen (Canada), 1986

The Tale of the Worms Quarry Magazine, Special Issue, New Writing for and about Children, Winter, 1985

Hotshot Dan McCall Buzz Magazine, March 1986

Country Summer and City Summer, Chickadee Magazine, Summer 1986

Gwen is only able to present in Edmonton. Available half days ONLY

Gwen Molnar's poem, "Around the World for a Shortcut" won first prize in the Canadian Authors Association's 1996 Poetry Contest and Animal Rap and Far-Out Fables was short listed for the 1997 Writer's Guild of Alberta's R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature. In 2000 she won the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award for Sebastian's Promise, a first chapter book.