Writer, Editor, Midwesterner


Lillian Lippold (she/they) is a writer of fiction. 


Lillian is a recent graduate from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrated in Regional American Place Writing and minored in Performance Studies. There, she received the coveted Léo Bronstein Award for excellence in interdisciplinary study of the arts. Her work focuses on the American Midwest, its history, and how regional affect can be performed by regional fiction. She has writing published or forthcoming in the Cleveland Review of Books, Confluence, the Middle West Review, the Masters Review and the Ana and has worked with The American Scholar, W.W. Norton, City Lights Bookstore, and AURORE. She edits The Bullpen and co-runs the Dykes of the Roundtable workshop at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. She lives in Chicago with her girlfriend (Tris Dávila) and cats (Minneapolis and Milagro).