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Lily Herman received her MFA from the University of Arizona. She co-edits the journal NAVIGATIONS with Caroline Preziosi, and she is a bruiser at BRUISER. She has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Monson Arts, and Wildacres. Her zine, SPREE, is available through BRUISER. You can subscribe to her newsletter here.

Selected Publications

2026: “Three Letters,” 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

2020: Minnie Torrance Award, Second Place

2018: Beatrice Kanigel Prize for Language and Literature

2017: Winter Broadside, Blue Fifth Review