Lily Herman is a poet and essayist from Baltimore, Maryland. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona. Her work has been published in Discount Guillotine, Blue Fifth Review, BRUISER, 86 Logic, +doc magazine, and Across the Margin. Her chapbook is available through Dryad Press, and she has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Monson Arts, and Wildacres.
Selected Publications
2025: “Underwater,” Discount Guillotine
2025: “Shrine of the Little Flower,” BRUISER
2024: “Three Posthumous 988 Calls: a triptych,” BRUISER
2024: “Tap Your Troubles Away,” March Danceness 2024
2024: “In,” BRUISER
2024: “The April Palace,” +doc magazine
2024: “So Below,” BRUISER
2024: “A Prayer for Lana Del Rey,” Across The Margin
2023: “Takeaway,” BRUISER
2022: “13 April 2018,” 86 Logic
2017: “Eat,” Baltimore City Paper
2017: “Psiakrew,” Blue Fifth Review Spring Quarterly
2017: “Red,” Blue Fifth Review Broadside #46
2013: Each Day There is a Little Love in a Book for You, Dryad Press
Honors
2023: Residency, Wildacres
2020: Minnie Torrance Award, Second Place
2019: Residency, Monson Arts
2019: Residency, Yaddo
2018: Beatrice Kanigel Prize for Language and Literature
2017: Winter Broadside, Blue Fifth Review