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Lily Herman is a writer whose work has been published in Discount Guillotine, Blue Fifth Review, BRUISER, 86 Logic, +doc magazine, and Across the Margin. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona. She is a bruiser at BRUISER, and she co-edits the journal NAVIGATIONS with Caroline Preziosi. Her chapbooks are available through Dryad Press and BRUISER, and she has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Monson Arts, and Wildacres.
Chapbooks + zines
Selected Publications
2025: SPREE, Bruiser
2013: Each Day There is a Little Love in a Book for You, Dryad Press
2026: “Dear Caroline,” Dear Lish,” and “Dear ghost-elect in the machine,” BRUISER
2026: “Anniversary,” Discount Guillotine
2026: “Dear Selection Committee,” “Extant,” and “9 February 2018,”Across The Margin
2025: “Born Again,” BRUISER
2025: “Maybe: a singing,” Cardenal Revista Literaria
2025: “Navigations/Navigation,” a collaboration with Caroline Preziosi, BRUISER
2025: “The Gospel of Maggie Rogers,” Across The Margin
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: “So Below,” BRUISER
2024: “A Prayer for Lana Del Rey,” Across The Margin
2023: “Takeaway,” BRUISER
2017: “Psiakrew,” Blue Fifth Review Spring Quarterly
2017: “Red,” Blue Fifth Review Broadside #46
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