Lily Herman is a writer from Maryland. Her 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. 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

2025: “Born Again,” BRUISER

2025: “Maybe: a singing,” La Tribuna

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: “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

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