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