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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. You can subscribe to her newsletter here.
Selected Publications
Chapbooks + Zines
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